Why Music Is Good For The Brain

@noromance I understand "brain" as a scientific model, a mockup for explanatory and predictive purposes -- a reduction, or better, a neuroreductionism. I'm more convinced that what we term the "mind" emerges from interaction among brain, yes, but also body and our environment, both physical and cultural.

The use of "brain" is now rhetorical, very often. People recommend this or that based on it being "good for the brain" when they actually have very little evidence of that or even what it might mean for something to be "good for the brain."

I hate it when people talk about the "brain" in order to make an argument about the our minds, personalities, moods, etc. It's a way of argument-by-physiology and if you talk to genuine neuroscientists (as I do) they will tell you what bunk it is.