So let’s say you’re optimally balanced between chaos and order. What does that mean? Well, you’re stable enough, but you’re interested. A little novelty heightens your anxiety. That wakes you up a bit. That’s the adventure part of it. But it also focuses the part of your brain that does exploratory activity, and that’s associated with pleasure. That’s the dopamine circuit. So if you’re optimally balanced, and you know you’re there if you’re listening to a piece of music models that. Because what music does is provide you with predictable forms, multi-level predictable forms that transform just the right amount.
So music is a very representational art form. It says, ‘this is what the universe is like.’
There’s a dancing element to it, repetitive, with little variations that sort of surprise you and produce excitement in you.
God, it’s so cool. In doesn’t matter how nihilistic you are, music still infuses you with a sense of meaning, because it models meaning.
That’s what it does. That’s why we love it. And you can dance to it, which represents you putting yourself in harmony with these multiple layers of reality, and positioning yourself properly.
