You don’t need empirical evidence to reason from first principles. In math we do that all the time.
I’d expect that people listening more to music might even be better verbally. But that’s simply because their brain is more oriented for this language learning which also causes more rewards from music. So correlation not causation.
This is basically my outline for proof:
something gives humans value → it gives us pleasure (evolution in most cases tried its best to make sure this is true)
it gives pleasure → something gives human value ∨ exploits some property of rewards system that generally in ancestral environment resulted in value
music gives pleasure, now i will show it exploits some property of reward system and we all known the disproportionate evidence to its value given how much pleasure it gives, so since we know it doesn’t give value it is already reasonable to suspect that it exploits our brain, but i will further drive this point by showing how exactly does it do that
our reward system especially in humans evolved rewards for predicting audio tokens, eg. to learn speech more effectively, music is mostly about lots of very easily predictable impactful audio tokens, this model of music already explains why we like similar genres, why music usually sounds better after second listen, explains its structure, probably many more things
we have seen in AIs just how effective learning mechanism prediction of tokens is
You don’t need empirical evidence to reason from first principles. In math we do that all the time.
I’d expect that people listening more to music might even be better verbally. But that’s simply because their brain is more oriented for this language learning which also causes more rewards from music. So correlation not causation.
This is basically my outline for proof:
something gives humans value → it gives us pleasure (evolution in most cases tried its best to make sure this is true)
it gives pleasure → something gives human value ∨ exploits some property of rewards system that generally in ancestral environment resulted in value
music gives pleasure, now i will show it exploits some property of reward system and we all known the disproportionate evidence to its value given how much pleasure it gives, so since we know it doesn’t give value it is already reasonable to suspect that it exploits our brain, but i will further drive this point by showing how exactly does it do that
our reward system especially in humans evolved rewards for predicting audio tokens, eg. to learn speech more effectively, music is mostly about lots of very easily predictable impactful audio tokens, this model of music already explains why we like similar genres, why music usually sounds better after second listen, explains its structure, probably many more things
we have seen in AIs just how effective learning mechanism prediction of tokens is