Womb as Paradise Lost

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Womb as Paradise Lost – Foetal Programming
Thetic Part 1 – Philosophical Introduction
Chapter 1 - 18th century Enlightment:
Resistance against living inside the ‘octave’
1. Introduction
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n this dissertation the connection between language related disorders and
neurological music therapy (NMT) has formed one of the core items. Music
and language seem to be an evolutionary unity. The scientific debate about
the question if language and music are genetic phenomena is an ongoing at an
interdisciplinary level. So it’s a part of my investigation. Because the first part of
my dissertation belongs to the fundamental, philosophical research, I only follow
the debate about these genetical problems only by research of literature as relevant
publicated investigations.
1.1 Music and Number
For the cultural meaning and the development of numbers we ought to be in the
community of Pythagoras. We illustrate the music developments by the famous
story of the blacksmith’s workshop. Pythagoras is so illustrated for us, when we
are thinking about the relationship between numbers and music. The proportional
differences between the objects generating musical intervals on which harmony
and melody are often based will first spring in mind. Pythagoras was said to have
been walking past a workshop where the sound of anvils of different weights
were being struck, with each weight producing a different tone. Sounding together
the result was consonant or stable. Upon investigation Pythagoras, it is said,