Re: Evolutionary Reason ?

On 2009-05-09, alertjean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <alertjean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I was wondering whether there is any evolutionary reason why humans
love music.

Comments ?

Tjirping sounds indicate birds, which indicates berries, insects
and worms, which indicates somewhat of a habitable land, which
equals survival and happiness ? Human made sounds indicate a
human group, which indicates cooperation in the interest of survival
is possible, equalling absence of a lonely death and presence of
survival and happiness ? Many songs remind people of good times
by their subject, recalling happy moments; or they might recall sad
moments in an effort to somehow integrate them better in memory
and maybe learn from them for the future (maybe collectively).

I guess it isn't that hard to come up with some hypotheses that
seem to make some sense.

There may also be an internal effect: when people love the same
music, they get together to eventually have babies, thus music
can become a vehicle for survival. Thus the music gets a direct
role in survival, making it even more attractive and associative
of happiness.

Then again, maybe it is just a quirk of evolution, and the reasons
for it are more or less by chance. Maybe the music gives people
a way to express themselves more or less irrationall, and this might
just make them feel good because of ancient instincts that made
pre-human ancestors feel good when they had occupied some territory
or established a certain dominance over others, and could scream and
bark that it was theirs to their hearts content. Maybe different
musical flavors flow from different reasons.
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http://www.jhwh.be/~joshb/technical_darwinism.html Still the scientific
establishment shuts its eyes to the obvious, despite this theory having
the potential to undo the damage that crude Darwinism has done politically
through "social Darwinism," besides simply being true & logically obvious.

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