[LAU] re Subconscious Affecting Music

[Brent Busby]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Cannot help noticing the irony that this comment is on this mailing list [?]
> I believe that Darwin had great difficulty dealing with music in
> evolutionary terms:
> Not the original but what google produces: darwinism cant explain
[...]

While I think we're still subject to Darwinian selection, I think humans 
kind of veered off the map a little bit when we developed our level of 
sentience and facility for seeing certain things as symbols for other 
things.  We're probably been at the point for some time now where the 
reason for our own traits is as much because of past cultural and social 
things as from natural selection.  Because of that, there will be all 
kinds of things about humans that Darwinism can't explain.

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