SUCH a fascinating one (they're all great)! It's made me want to chew this over but as I have no one to talk about this with, here is one point of engagement.
The Fact Framework has put words to something I've been noticing more of in my own life in relationship to music. While I'm sure there are studies on the impact of different kinds of musical arrangements on the brain, the 'why' behind the power of emotion invoked by music feels like one of those 'beyond fact' entities. Empirical assessment can't touch why Wait For It from Hamilton or Into the Unknown makes me weep every time I hear them (they could try, but I think they would be fundamentally lacking). But that emotional movement speaks to a bit of reality that sits beyond fact. Those beyond-words spaces feel sacred and worth protecting.
SUCH a fascinating one (they're all great)! It's made me want to chew this over but as I have no one to talk about this with, here is one point of engagement.
The Fact Framework has put words to something I've been noticing more of in my own life in relationship to music. While I'm sure there are studies on the impact of different kinds of musical arrangements on the brain, the 'why' behind the power of emotion invoked by music feels like one of those 'beyond fact' entities. Empirical assessment can't touch why Wait For It from Hamilton or Into the Unknown makes me weep every time I hear them (they could try, but I think they would be fundamentally lacking). But that emotional movement speaks to a bit of reality that sits beyond fact. Those beyond-words spaces feel sacred and worth protecting.