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...quantify artistic expression into a set of scientific facts and data. But Sacks is not interested in reducing musical creativity to the firing of neurons or the flowing of hormones. He has a deep sense of respect for the unique possibilities of artistic expression and claims, quoting Schopenhauer??s assertion that “the inexpressible depth of music [is] so easy to understand yet so inexplicable.”Indeed, Sacks never really provides a scientific answer to the question of what draws human beings to the “odd thing” that is music...
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