From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 4, 2016 11:08 PM To: Rupert Sheldrake Subject: Re: harmony harmonics of course. but pleasant h=rmonies not the same. can natural thir=s fifths etc be used to calm a group or a child ? may=e. it is clear that the energy it takes to deconst=uct shrill and dissonant sounds like a baby crying ,have reasons. =AO does pleasant harmony represent something like the vi=ual act of looking at a still lake. represent " no =redators" , I love the homing pigeons=C2 , . It would be awful if the chinese stars and moon real=y did have an underlying reason. :) . Im not sure =hy people have moved to worms if we have yet to figure the simplest =acteria cell. and its reasons and formula for division. =C2 what evolutionary advantage, would there be for dividing. =AO unless it made the odds more difficult if under attack. =AO energy would need to be expended on attacking copies, =etc. and some of " you" might survive? =AO thank you for your faraday guidance. his favori=e book isaac watts improvement of mind On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Rupert Shel=rake Dear Jeffrey, <mailto > wrote: I much enjoyed our conversation and hare been puzzling over the evolutionary basis of our appreciation of harmony, not something l=E2 d ever thought about before until you brought up this fascinating question.=C2 Fortunately as I was puzzling over it, the soun=s of a workshop my wife, Jill Purce, was giving in a large room below me in =ur house came wafting up. She teaches chanting and meditation and was giving a special master class on overtone chanting, a form of chant=ng which brings out the overtones which are always implicit, that are made explicit in this Mongolian technique. So I think=the answer is fairly clear. Although harmony in musical sense of the=word is not a major part of our evolutionary heritage, harmonics certainly are.=C2 If you and I sing the syllable 000 on the note C, our voices will sound diffe