Daniel J. Levitin

They already know this, I'm sure, or could know it if they wanted to, because many of us have these devices that are monitoring. So I imagine a world in which music as medicine becomes invisible to us. Oh, you're on your way to the gym. The GPS knows you're on the way to the gym. It knows from past activity that you're about to get on the treadmill.

It also knows that that cup of coffee you had this morning didn't really do the trick. You're a little bit sleepy. And so it'll play you ACDC or Van Halen or whatever pumps you up in the car on the way to the gym. And then you get there and it'll keep playing it. You've had a fight with somebody and it'll know what music will calm you in the horizon. And we haven't used the two letters AI yet.

It also knows that that cup of coffee you had this morning didn't really do the trick. You're a little bit sleepy. And so it'll play you ACDC or Van Halen or whatever pumps you up in the car on the way to the gym. And then you get there and it'll keep playing it. You've had a fight with somebody and it'll know what music will calm you in the horizon. And we haven't used the two letters AI yet.

It also knows that that cup of coffee you had this morning didn't really do the trick. You're a little bit sleepy. And so it'll play you ACDC or Van Halen or whatever pumps you up in the car on the way to the gym. And then you get there and it'll keep playing it. You've had a fight with somebody and it'll know what music will calm you in the horizon. And we haven't used the two letters AI yet.

I think what AI can do for us here is whatever music might be relaxing to you today, whatever may not always relax you all the time because your brain is constantly changing. Different events and different physiological occurrences can lead you to have different kinds of anxiety, let's say. And so ideally what AI would do is it would start with a tried and true, this always calms Jordan down.

I think what AI can do for us here is whatever music might be relaxing to you today, whatever may not always relax you all the time because your brain is constantly changing. Different events and different physiological occurrences can lead you to have different kinds of anxiety, let's say. And so ideally what AI would do is it would start with a tried and true, this always calms Jordan down.

I think what AI can do for us here is whatever music might be relaxing to you today, whatever may not always relax you all the time because your brain is constantly changing. Different events and different physiological occurrences can lead you to have different kinds of anxiety, let's say. And so ideally what AI would do is it would start with a tried and true, this always calms Jordan down.

And monitor in real time whether it's actually calming you down. And if it's not, it would get something else from your playlist. Or there are now 200 million songs across all the streaming services. It would find something you haven't heard. It could become your new go-to thing and test it in real time. See whether your body really reacts.

And monitor in real time whether it's actually calming you down. And if it's not, it would get something else from your playlist. Or there are now 200 million songs across all the streaming services. It would find something you haven't heard. It could become your new go-to thing and test it in real time. See whether your body really reacts.

And monitor in real time whether it's actually calming you down. And if it's not, it would get something else from your playlist. Or there are now 200 million songs across all the streaming services. It would find something you haven't heard. It could become your new go-to thing and test it in real time. See whether your body really reacts.

The why question with evolution is always tricky. We know that music can affect the immune system in several ways. Listening to pleasurable music can increase levels of immunoglobulin A, an important antibody that travels to the site of mucosal infections and help fights them off.

The why question with evolution is always tricky. We know that music can affect the immune system in several ways. Listening to pleasurable music can increase levels of immunoglobulin A, an important antibody that travels to the site of mucosal infections and help fights them off.

The why question with evolution is always tricky. We know that music can affect the immune system in several ways. Listening to pleasurable music can increase levels of immunoglobulin A, an important antibody that travels to the site of mucosal infections and help fights them off.

We know that music that is pleasurable to you can increase the production of natural killer cells and T cells, also important for fighting disease and infection. Some music can lead to reductions in inflammation. Why music does this and why the immune system responds to it, we don't know. But it does.

We know that music that is pleasurable to you can increase the production of natural killer cells and T cells, also important for fighting disease and infection. Some music can lead to reductions in inflammation. Why music does this and why the immune system responds to it, we don't know. But it does.

We know that music that is pleasurable to you can increase the production of natural killer cells and T cells, also important for fighting disease and infection. Some music can lead to reductions in inflammation. Why music does this and why the immune system responds to it, we don't know. But it does.

And so evolutionary reason, my guess is that we evolved over tens of thousands of years with music and music co-evolved with us so that the kinds of music we made and gravitated towards was the kind of music that made us feel good and was a sort of iterative process where we One changes and the other changes in response to it. So they co-evolved.

And so evolutionary reason, my guess is that we evolved over tens of thousands of years with music and music co-evolved with us so that the kinds of music we made and gravitated towards was the kind of music that made us feel good and was a sort of iterative process where we One changes and the other changes in response to it. So they co-evolved.

And so evolutionary reason, my guess is that we evolved over tens of thousands of years with music and music co-evolved with us so that the kinds of music we made and gravitated towards was the kind of music that made us feel good and was a sort of iterative process where we One changes and the other changes in response to it. So they co-evolved.

So stuttering, like Parkinson's, is a motor disorder. It's a failure to regulate movements in a particular order and at a particular time. People who stutter are unable to get the words out in the right order and at the right time. The thing about music is that it has its own intrinsic tempo to it. Language, normal spoken language, doesn't. We sort of say things the way we want when we want.