Text 5194, 58 rader
Skriven 2010-12-23 23:26:49 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 5136 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: inspiratory 904
===========================
-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 20 Dec 10  09:26:00 <=-

 ML> I'm rather glad of that, though someday somebody's going to
 ML> come up with an artificial intelligence that can fool most
 ML> people ... of course it'll be amoral, which isn't so good,
 ML> and will probably turn out to be a force for badness.

One can hope that it doesn't happen in our lifetime...?  :)

 ML> Been sleeping in a room that gets full morning sun, so
 ML> despite my not being able to sleep for a long time, it's
 ML> nice being roused.

There's just something about having sun in the morning to wake up by,
isn't it...?  We've had a spate of cloudiness... not all that bad, in
the middle of the night there's more light than usual, but come morning
it's a bit more dreary...  It's so much nicer to have some nice sunny
brightness... :)

 NB>> Apparently not.  Too many are hoodwinked by those who don't see the
 NB>> connection, or are ignoring it.  I guess we need multiple BIG studies
 NB>> that make headlines like "MUSIC AND THE ARTS SHOWN TO ENHANCE
 NB>> LEARNING" to get people's attention?  Or "SCIENCE AND MATH NO GOOD
 NB>> WITHOUT MUSIC" perhaps...?

 ML> Nobody is funding such studies. In the '70s there were a number
 ML> of such, but after a flurry of interest, these went dormant or
 ML> were pushed under the rug or something.

Sad.  Wonder if there's some way to interest some of the big foundations
into funding such...?

 ML> I'm wondering if the sort of music that is being practiced
 ML> most these days has good or bad effects? There was once 
 ML> supposed to have been a study that purported to prove that
 ML> prenatal exposure to Mozart and Vivaldi had postnatal benefits,
 ML> but exposure to popular music or random noise did not. Not

Good question...  :)   I'd suspect that much of what passes for music
nowadays would tend to be more detrimental than helpful...

 ML> to mention the numerous science fair projects that involve
 ML> blasting plants with various sorts of sound (it's no longer
 ML> allowed to do this with defenseless baby chix, puppies, and
 ML> similar).

I've heard that cows exposed to classical music give more milk... ;) 
And we had a psycho-kitty that was somewhat tamed by her long-term
exposure to classical music...   I don't think that I'd want to do a
controlled study, though...  the other sorts of sound might be less
healthy, and I'd feel bad about blasting the poor defenseless animals or
plants with it... ;>

ttyl      neb

... Ice Cream for Windows:  _Hoggin' DOS_,  From Micro Softee Freeze
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20
 * Origin: The Holodeck BBS Roch, NY telnet://holo.homeip.net (1:261/1381)