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Making a list of things that happen in song lyrics that don't (usually) happen in normal spoken language.
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An incomplete list of literary (lyrical) devices used within song lyrics.
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According to my dual response hypothesis, music has two features: how it affects the listener's emotional response to a situation, and how it affects the listener's pragmatic response to the same situation. If indeed music is an adaptation with those two features, then probably one those features had to evolve first.
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Hypothesis: Music enables and encourages an emotional response to a situation while simultaneously suppressing any pragmatic response.
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An analysis of non-agency in song lyrics
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When you dance, you are doing something. But, you are not doing anything that solves any practical problem. Dance is just doing something for the sake of doing something.
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Hypothesis: Music motivates the listener to experience emotion, but without the listener thinking about how to respond to the situation causing the emotion.
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The effect of music on our ability to understand prose may be a reduction in our ability to maintain an evolving context
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Our brains process song lyrics in two different modes - "Prose Mode" and "Line-by-Line Mode". In effect every song has two different audiences.
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The hypothesis that the transcendent effects of music are not a consequence of other effects of music – rather that transcendence is the primary effect, and other effects are consequences of the transcendence.
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The hypothesis that Music is constructed in a manner that induces or encourages the brain of the listener to unify perceptions of different things – as if they are just one thing.
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Music creates an altered state of mind that increases the brain's willingness to assume or believe that different perceptions are perceptions of the same thing.
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It is normal to listen to musical items more than once in a way that doesn't apply to other forms of entertainment. This has implications for any theory that attempts to explain why we like listening to music.
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Considering the evidence for the assertion that music is a recreational drug - and what the implications are.
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How to set up a separate less privileged user to run an AI coding assistant such as Claude Code
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The requirements for being conscious. Is "X" conscious? Are dogs conscious? Is AI conscious?
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Considering different options for uploading yourself to the AI
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Exploring consciousness as a self-modifying intelligence system with built-in stability mechanisms, and how this relates to AI development and self-help limitations.