Sublime

But because of its many protective systems, the brain cannot be manipulated like a chemical in a test tube. It reacts to such intrusions on many levels by increasing or decreasing other chemicals and neurotransmitters in its infinitely complex electro-chemical conversation, a dialogue that goes far beyond our current ability to even track, let alon

it is the dumb, novelty-seeking portion of the brain driving the limbic system that induces this feeling of pleasure, not the planning, scheduling, higher-level thought centers in the prefrontal cortex.

Steven Pinker has referred to music as “auditory cheesecake,” and asks: “What benefit could there be

This ability to recognize diversity and organize it into categories is a biological reality that is absolutely essential to the organized human mind.

would play ten orgasmic records and then two cool-down records, then eight orgasmic records followed by three cool-down records, then seven orgasmic records and four cool-down records, and then repeat until the audience was satisfied. Bands do the same thing with their setlists. They pace themselves. And artists do the same thing when they build an