Detlof
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Some of you may know me from WBF. I am a dyed in the wool music lover and since I also like to listen to music at home, also an audiophile, but less woolly. I have come knocking at your door to learn, because without the natural sciences there would be no audiophiles. But then without the humanities ( which I have been trained in ), neither audiophilia nor love for music can really be questioned at depth. I feel we need each other. There is so much that science cannot explain. For example, we know now, that there are specific parts in our brain which will react to music, discerning it from noise and hence react to nothing else but music. Why this is so, we do not know so far. Here the humanities may come in, not to give answers, but to speculate and hypothesize. These again may one day give ground for controlled experiments to push research further. We need each other I feel, although since natural science attracts the best brains from all over the world and its successes are simply stunning, the humanities have less and less to contribute. But still......
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