Re: incredibly circuitous causal pathways

[Dave Keenan:]
>In music, a fundamental thing is how the ear-brain has evolved (and been
trained) according to whatever could be most easily cobbled together from
whatever went before, in order to give
the greatest reproductive survival to its user, by some incredibly
circuitous causal pathways.

>Of course the physics determines that most sounds of interest will have
partials which are harmonic or nearly so, diminishing in amplitude with
frequency. But all the shortcuts taken by the ear-brain system; what
information it ignores or throws away etc. are highly relevant.

Very nicely put Dave.

Thanks,
Dan