Musicophilia6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sacks instructs, entertains, and enlightens readers on the complexities of human perceptions of music and just how important music is in innumerable circumstances. In the face of certain brain injuries or disease, it can also provide insights helping with diagnosis and can reach people who are otherwise uncommunicative. Music can have these effects on us just by listening as well as in the course of making music. It can stimulate the brain and enhance learning. Music can touch us in ways nothing else can. Science fiction aside, music is central to human existence, and yet on the surface it’s confounding trying to discern its purpose. In the preface of Oliver Sacks’ landmark book Musicophilia, he muses about how human interactions with music might puzzle a highly intelligent alien being with no frame of reference conjuring a scene from the world of Arthur C. ![]()
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