I tried to google the connection, but was unsuccessful in finding any theories. Why do you think we have musical and mathematical abilities ?
If neither confer any survival value (eg: we don't have to compute the laws of gravity in order to dodge falling objects) are there any plausible explanations out there as to why we have these abilities? — 3017amen
If neither confer any survival value — 3017amen
Why do you think we have musical and mathematical abilities ? — 3017amen
If neither confer any survival value (eg: we don't have to compute the laws of gravity in order to dodge falling objects) are there any plausible explanations out there as to why we have these abilities? — 3017amen
The first evidence of a musical instrument that was made to purpose is an ivory instrument with holes drilled at regular intervals. This instrument belong to 'modern man' and was made 45,000 years ago.
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But the first applications of math were (as far as I know) applied to trade, which is very recent, 5,000 years ago, after the invention of writing. — Bitter Crank
Why do you think we have musical and mathematical abilities ? — 3017amen
Indeed I am having difficulties squaring the idea that abstract human attributes were needed to survive.
Accordingly, what has much intrigue in history are those born with mathematical and musical genius. — 3017amen
If neither confer any survival value (eg: we don't have to compute the laws of gravity in order to dodge falling objects) are there any plausible explanations out there as to why we have these abilities? — 3017amen
I am going to be thinking about the so-called essence and existence of language, logic and phenomena there of....
My initial thought is that there is a metaphysical component to each language. — 3017amen
Thus far I want to focus just a bit on the phenomenon of qualia. — 3017amen
So we know the common person has these experiencees ( including math and music of course ) that are basically an ineffable form of language that we percieve. — 3017amen
Could we agree that it seems to go beyond objective and subjective truths? And if so couldn't it follow that it is a real metaphysical language? — 3017amen
However, their brains were pretty much like ours by the time the flute was made, so maybe... but we just don't know what kind of quantitative thinking they did. — Bitter Crank
So to that particular end, I love quoting excerpts from physicist Paul Davies/The Mind of God book: — 3017amen
That's all fine and dandy, but the instrument in question proceeded Pythagoras by maybe 40,000 years. What the 40,000 BCE people had discovered was a) pleasant sound could be made by blowing into a hollow bone and that b) holes in the bone, covered and uncovered, would change the sound. c) one could play the same sounds over and over. Not enough of the bone remains to know how the sound was initiated; an unknown amount of the bone tube has been lost--we can't know how long it was. — Bitter Crank
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