I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafte…

Steven Pinker
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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. ✨ Steven Pinker (2009). How the Mind Works, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company
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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. ✨ Steven Pinker (2009). How the Mind Works, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company

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