Cheesecake for the brain

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A sardonic hat-tip to Steven Pinker’s extraordinary idea that music might be some accidental byproduct of an evolutionary process, like “auditory cheesecake” that does nothing for the brain.

Now there are things that act like cheesecake for the brain: music, as a category, is not one of them, but some types of music that flex particular time-tested formulae, maybe.

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