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[sestra_kerry]

"...Humans are the only creatures that can discover advanced mathematics, and the only creatures that can create and formalize music. If the beauty and physics of the universe, and the beauty and physics of music, are linked, the links exist uniquely in human brains. Neuroscientists such as Rick Granger, Gyorgy Buzsaki, and Ani Patel are still striving to understand how brains can perceive, learn and remember, and plan and predict. But even rats and dogs and bears can do all of those things. What, then, sets human brains apart? What makes us uniquely able to do what nonhuman brains cannot: appreciate music and understand mathematics? And to create new things under the sun: compose, improvise, discover new mathematical facts about the universe?"

Stephon Alexander "The jazz of physics"