Love-making and music-making seem to me to have the capacity to transcend signalling. We can get lost in sex and song, pulled out of our usual patterns of broadcasting and receiving, taken up into something altogether free and fresh.
Of course, sex and song are also deeply interwoven with signals, and plenty of people mimic rather than make love and music; but that is over there, and over here—in the moment of rapturous love- or music-making—those things fall away, mostly, and for a time.
In case you were wondering why you were being downvoted: your comment either adds little (‘yes, signaling and evolutionary considerations influence sex and music to a degree unimagined by the conventional idealistic thoughts about those topics—but they still feel good!‘) or it doesn’t take into account all the reasons we should be much more cynical about the conventional narratives such as ‘We can get lost in sex and song...’
Love-making and music-making seem to me to have the capacity to transcend signalling. We can get lost in sex and song, pulled out of our usual patterns of broadcasting and receiving, taken up into something altogether free and fresh.
Of course, sex and song are also deeply interwoven with signals, and plenty of people mimic rather than make love and music; but that is over there, and over here—in the moment of rapturous love- or music-making—those things fall away, mostly, and for a time.
In case you were wondering why you were being downvoted: your comment either adds little (‘yes, signaling and evolutionary considerations influence sex and music to a degree unimagined by the conventional idealistic thoughts about those topics—but they still feel good!‘) or it doesn’t take into account all the reasons we should be much more cynical about the conventional narratives such as ‘We can get lost in sex and song...’