That’s long and kind of interesting, but also super pop-sci-y.
The opening talks about how music physically reshapes your brain, but what doesn’t?
A professional athlete’s brain is going to develop differently from a professional chef or professional writer or professional mathematician. Whether you regularly exercise or take drugs or do whatever will all change which regions of your brain get more or less prominence and resource and change it’s wiring. That how the brain works.
The rest of the points all follow in a similar manner. Some are interesting and can be taken at face value, a lot have glaring obvious questions unanswered that make it sound like someone is boosting a nothing study result.
Overall, they don’t add up to a particularly interesting or cohesive point, it honestly feels AI generated.
Neat to prove it for sure, but I feel like the scientists might be misrepresenting previous consensus to make their conclusions sound more momentous.
Like did Raven experts really think that Ravens just followed wolves 24/7 to scavenge?
… Ravens, the only animal other then humans known to be posses linguistic displacement (the ability to communicate ideas about locations that are far away in time and space), the ones that memorize hundreds of locations that other Ravens bury food so that they can later steal it, a literal top 5 animal in terms of cleverness creativity and problem solving, that can travel in any arbitrary direction of 3D space…
… Experts of these creatures really thought that they just followed wolves 24/7 to pick up the scraps?