Leandro Macedo
Steven talks about the possible ways Evolution made human beings like and produce music.
Complete video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMReUsxTt4
(Steven Pinker – The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews)
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Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins on why we enjoy music
I wonder what musicologists think about this!!!!
I (modestly) I find Steven's explanation the best we have for now.
Just writing this down so I remember: the mind may get pleasure in trying to find the optimal rhythms for efficient motor-control, eg. Running, walking, pounding, grinding or chewing even? Optimal rhythms would have conserved energy or sped up processes, hence pleasure from this process may have been naturally selected for.
Steven Mithen proves that Pinker is completly wrong in his book The singing Nearthentals
Hey dummies- rhythm comes from your heartbeat, not your fuckin motor control. Sheesh. No one listens to Mozart thinking how optimally it describes efficient motor operations. Our primate eyes like to see fruits too, but that doesn't mean we like to paint the inner walls of our homes red and orange. Overall I would say that we use music in group events because it mathematically codifies emotion almost exactly, and all can partake in it and become unified.
Here is the answer: the ability to reproduce the sonorous calls of animals makes humans better hunters.
Are they just pretending they're stupid or do they really not know?