What is it about?

"In much wisdom is much grief." So, why culture evolves, if it multiplies grief? Music helps to overcome the grief of knowledge and to continue evolution of culture. Why music so strongly affects us? Why this ability to be affected by sounds emerged in evolution? Why we enjoy sad music , which cannot be listened without tears? Knowledge could be difficult to accept, unrequited love, betrayal by friends and loved one, knowledge about deaths. Music helps us to overcome these difficulties , continue to learn, and to evolve culture.

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Music is a mystery. It was a mystery to Aristotle, Kant, Darwin, and still is a mystery to contemporary musicologists. Here is finally a scientific explanation of the mystery of music. Theoretical explanations are confirmed by experiments. Here is finally a scientific explanation of the mystery of music. Theoretical explanations are confirmed by experiments.

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It is a breakthrough discovery that solved a millennial mystery.

Prof Leonid Perlovsky
Harvard University

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This page is a summary of: A challenge to human evolution—cognitive dissonance, Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00179.
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