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Oliver Sacks possesses the literary and professional chops to examine the links between music and our brains. I've thought since chilhood that somehow the workings of the cosmos are wired like music, as if God or The Big Bang were out there orchestrating a series of relationships and waves: from light waves to sound waves to the array of unseen yet detectable waves we measure to prove the existence of far-flung galaxies or black holes. If the universe is made of harmonies working together or against each other, Sacks has made an impressive argument for the music of it all.
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Lindas352, November 3, 2008
Oliver Sacks possesses the literary and professional chops to examine the links between music and our brains. I've thought since chilhood that somehow the workings of the cosmos are wired like music, as if God or The Big Bang were out there orchestrating a series of relationships and waves: from light waves to sound waves to the array of unseen yet detectable waves we measure to prove the existence of far-flung galaxies or black holes. If the universe is made of harmonies working together or against each other, Sacks has made an impressive argument for the music of it all.(12 of 26 readers found this comment helpful)