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My mum works with the eldery a lot. I get to meet them. The ones who struggle to remember their room numbers or that they're staying in a care home light up and talk at great length when you can hit whatever it was that they focused on in their lives.

I'm not a medical person, i'm not claiming it's true of all, i'm just saying.. sometimes, if someone was really passionate about something, it's amazing to see them get so emotive about it. Sometimes they get stuck in loops but who cares? And if you probe a bit you can stumble into new stuff from time to time.

Absolutely beautiful! The way he came alive shot a surge of emotion right through me.

Music gives our brains the tool it needs to cross divided territory. Learning concepts that would otherwise be segregated. I see this when kids and adults use the music experience to learn new languages and experience (for them) hard to understand math problems.

That was fantastic.

I think music really is that one thing that definitively separates us from animals. Nothing else that is created by humans comes close to affecting us in the same way, and in such a variety of ways. Two people who have nothing else in common can be brought together with music. It enhances other forms of media to a degree that without it, it feels incomplete. I've never met anyone that didn't like music in one form or another, and it comes in many, many forms.

Music is quite possibly mankind's greatest ever creation

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This one video, by playing and referencing copyrighted music, is calculated to have cost the record industry $1.5 trillion in lost business.

Recently read Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs, an interesting book, if you're curious about this kind of thing, I recommend it. All the books of his I've read are pretty much the same, just different case histories of his many patients but, the cases are fascinating.

Can we make it clear it's an ipod? An ipod. There are no other music players.

I jest. A lovely clip.

I used to work in a long term care ward of a local hospital. There were lots of elder folk there who were fun to listen too, had great stories. There was one particular black gentlemen who had the raunchiest stories about his early life in South Carolina. He was so funny.

The idea of being senile, crippled, and confused in old age is one of those things that terrifies me, but what's worse is the idea of being crippled and unable to communicate but being completely alert and aware on the inside. This video has reinforced that fear in a big way.

But it's beautiful.

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