[LAU] [OT] Phoneblocks, a modular phone

[david]

On 02/08/2014 08:33 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 19:08 +0100, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote:
>> P.S.2: talking about well-meaning envy, and myself being some kind of
>> a musician in some way, I've found this beautiful sentence:
>> "Eisenberg goes on to describe musicians as "self-conscious birds" who
>> have music both in their muscles and in their minds.And that must be a
>> wonderful state of being. It is for this reason that I have a certain
>> well-meaning envy of musicians."
>
> Music seems to be a good training against dementia and even seems to
> protect against effects of Alzheimer's disease, OTOH a lot of disorders
> are more often for artists, depressions, personality disorders, left vs
> right cerebral hemisphere, IOW artists are more often left-hander,
> dyslexics etc. and even while making music seems to protect against
> dementia and effects of Alzheimer, musicians are more often addicted to
> evil, life-endangering drugs, they are more often nerds etc., so the
> resume seems to be that the pros come with contras². IMO the only real
> pro of being a musician is to have fun, when making music and many of us
> "suffer" from synesthesia, so we don't need drugs to experience what
> most people only could experience when taking drugs.

Also, IIRC, people with strokes or other localized brain damage who were 
unable to process spoken words, or remember steps in a task for more 
than a short while, have been able to say or remember things by singing 
them, instead of speaking.

Music is a powerful thing, deeply and thoroughly rooted in our 
neurology, human culture and history. It effects our minds, bodies and 
society.

-- 
David W. Jones
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