Thanks for your valuable opinion and insight. This all can be taken as an experiment. Let's see if there's some effect. I'll continue, and there's a chance to start serious medical research in cooperation with doctors and clinics - I have some good feedback, requests and offers. All the best. Daniel Forro On 17 Jan, 2014, at 9:43 PM, <synergeezer@...> <synergeezer@... > wrote: > > > I agree that "music has charms to soothe the savage breast"! It has > probably saved my life several times. As I tried to point out, I > thought your music seems pretty good, if not exactly to my taste. > (I adhere strongly to the maxim "de gustibus no est disputandum".) > I strongly believe that music is an excellent treatment for the > metaphorical "savage breast". For me it is the best treatment > (followed by spending time with the right woman [if you're male and > less than 47 years old, you'll probably want to elevate this one to > #1], and a day paddling around the river). > > Where I have a problem is at the point of saying "this music treats > problems with the lungs", or "listen to this for the good of your > heart" (while leaving the metaphorical sense behind). That this is > taught in some (otherwise respectable) universities makes no actual > difference (argumentum ab auctoritate). Just a few years ago, there > was a police-approved movement to end ritual Satanic abuse of > children in the US. Nothing ever came of this, except the > governmental and societal abuse of, apparently, innocent and > mystified parents; no convictions, and it seems to have > disappeared. Chiropractic is taught in some universities in the US, > and the NIH has a Center for Complementary and Alternative > Medicine. I believe this displays a slide into quackery, and I hope > it is temporary. > > To respond to another response, Kuhn had some insight, but drew > grandiose conclusions from it. > > I would not have you stop making your music, but I think the claims > of specific medical curative properties (over and above the general > increase in well-being) are excessive. > > (I'll stop now, hopefully before the Admin kicks me off!) > > - synergeezer
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Re: [CZ-VZ-Files] Re: OT My new electronic music project
2014-01-24 by Daniel Forró
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