Why Music Is Good For The Brain


Why Music Is Good For The Brain

"Can music really affect your well-being, learning, cognitive function, quality of life, and even happiness? A recent survey on music and brain health conducted by AARP revealed some interesting findings about the impact of music on cognitive and emotional well-being."

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Great article....thanks...

We are made of "music" , the content of consciousness is information as waves in mathematics...

We are waves...

I personaly believe as if  i always " had know" it  that there exist a universal memory where all beings are ONE, because all others memories combine and interact without confusion  ...

I trust only mathematics ...

And mystics about it ...

Philosophers are way less trusty here ... 😊 Save philosophers enlightened by mathematics and mystical experiences and musical one ...( as Bach )

I doubt everything else but not this fact ...

Then even in alzheimer  with the apparent lost of the ego personality by lost of all filters making it possible in the brain , the basic memory of emotions written in music form cannot disapear, it override the brain filters in normal life  who make the separated ego possible...

Music and numbers are not less real than a table ...I pity those who dont experience it ...

Yes there is "marketing by ignorance " as the publicity about buying this perfume by Guerlain or Chanel because the quantum states of these molecules had been enhanced etc ...😉

But the scientists i cited above are top in the world not marketers ...

There is "quantum" and quantum....

 

 

«Music is so good for the brain because the brain is music itself, pick the right tune»-- Anonymus neurologist working for Pfizer only for money but free in his mind 🙊

All these quantum consciousness hypotheses appear to be efforts to either dig deeper into explaining how neurons function in the brain itself, or to create some framework of religious mysticism and, dare I say, a pseudoscientific explanation of what spiritual folk call the soul? Hopefully, it’s the former.

The point about the brain as real phenomenon and our ridiculous reductive models of the brain ( as the works of the mere neurons levels for example or as a computer etc ) as made by hilde45

is very good and in my opinion right ...

Once this is said ...

 

 

All brain models are not reductionism or the product of reductionism...

For example the specific model of the brain of Anirban Bandyopadhyay or the specific different but not opposite model of Penrose and Hameroff are not reductionism at all and oppose all reductionism...

The same is true in a less evident way for the Karl Friston understanding of the brain working ...

There is others...

 

Once this is said, sounds(speech) as prayers or as doctors and healers command  or some music in some context, are tools for "miracles" which are easy to verify and already had been...Ignorants or ideologues only doubt them ...Read the "Lourdes" Zola enquiry ...This is only an example ...There is too much examples to fill a small books it needs an encyclopedia for miracles...😊

Music therapy is recognized everywhere save by big pharma... Guess who are the crooks now ? The healers or mr. Bourla ?

Any drugs well recognized and cheap, big pharma do what must be do to eliminate it from the market to maintain profit... Music therapy for them is the worst delusion...It does not takes a genius nor deep inquiry to guess where are the crooks... 😊

 

«I walk only in my brain»-- Groucho Marx 🤓

This article about the music and the brain tell another story ...

All is not "bunk" ...

The studies of the relation between the brain and music is not old matter...

Neuroimaging is a new fields...

This article explain in few experiments why it is not bunk...

 

https://www.scirp.org/pdf/jbbs_2020012115154201.pdf

This book tell also another story and effectively the brain is influenced as much by music that music perception is influenced by the brain :

https://www.amazon.ca/Oxford-Handbook-Music-Brain/dp/0198804121

 

 

This book is free to consult :

https://hugoribeiro.com.br/biblioteca-digital/Peretez_Zatorre-Neuroscience_of_Music.pdf

 

The publicity about this book with one of the writer a neurologist reveal the opposite of "bunk" :

https://booksfromnorway.com/books/1416-music-and-the-brain.pdf

I will order the book ...

 

Music change consciousness state and level or can do so, as meditation do, with measurable effects on the brain... We can read how music affect the brain with neuroimaging etc and in reverse reading how the brain parts contributes to the interpretation and understanding of music ...

 

Anyway one of the greatest scientist in the studies of artificial brain think the human brain is "music" ...In a litteral way...

Anirban Bandyopadhyay and his book which is one of the best i read: Nanobrain ...
 
As the indian scientist i just use, i believe in the unity of mind/body because the mind body is part of the universe, not an external part as in old materialism and nominalism but as an internal part , then a wholeness as in Vedic litterature and as in modern research on artificial brain done by Anirban ...
 
Then we cannot separate the mind from the brain nor reduce the mind to the mere brain, no more than we can reduce the music to a written partition or even reduce it to one orchestral interpretation...
 

I dont doubt that music is a powerful therapy way underestimated because big pharma cannot make a profit with it and then will not pay to know about it...

I dont doubt that music can change not only the superficial moods of a person but in some case, some sound and some speech can rewire the brain...

Try the OM sound or Christ name,  for a year and go under neuroimaging after it ...

take a baby and use the mother voices or the voice of an alien woman and measure the therapeutic effect of the two on the baby ...

It is evident that sound as speech or music impact the material brain and the soul also and the health...