MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Brain

  • ANTICIPATION: KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

    Ric AmurrioMay 15 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 33 How Your Favorite Song Starts to Irritate You Music gives pleasure because your mind keeps predicting what comes next,” writes Loretta Graziano Breuning. And it’s simple: each correct prediction triggers dopamine. If the music is unfamiliar, you don’t get the chemical. When it is somewhat familiar — you feel as…

  • The Brain as Server Farm

    Precisely. The human cranium acts as a kind of ramshackle server farm, crammed with pulsating neurons and glistening fatty insulation – the wetware underpinning this magnificent, messy biocomputer. It’s a marvel of evolution, cobbled together over millennia, but with all the elegance of a hacker’s basement rig. The software, on the other hand, that’s the…