This also applies to my piano analogy. Remove the middle C string, and you’ll hear silence wherever there’s supposed to be a middle C. Remove the dampers, and the piano will sound like the sustain pedal is constantly held down. Tune each G# string a semitone higher, and you’ll hear an A wherever a G# is supposed to be.
That doesn’t seem at all similar. The brain is, in this analogy, more like an instrument where if you remove one string it still works for most things but will no longer let you play anything by Mozart, and if you remove another everything comes out syncopated, and if you remove another then you can still play everything but all rubato disappears so that rhythms become metronomic. See also my reply to billswift.
This also applies to my piano analogy. Remove the middle C string, and you’ll hear silence wherever there’s supposed to be a middle C. Remove the dampers, and the piano will sound like the sustain pedal is constantly held down. Tune each G# string a semitone higher, and you’ll hear an A wherever a G# is supposed to be.
That doesn’t seem at all similar. The brain is, in this analogy, more like an instrument where if you remove one string it still works for most things but will no longer let you play anything by Mozart, and if you remove another everything comes out syncopated, and if you remove another then you can still play everything but all rubato disappears so that rhythms become metronomic. See also my reply to billswift.