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."

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 🤓

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.

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.

I was researching a paper on music and mental health/state in the Fall of 1973 and the only reference material I could find in a sizable Uni library was the following (depicted) book - since with @ least one revision.

Because of this I switched the topic to why heroin (not methadone) should be legalized and governmentally controlled in the United States.

DeKay