repetition may be the key to Alzheimer's
Randomization may be the key to healthy minds. In the natural world no two things are the same.
That goes for sound as well as things seen. That's a safe assumption to make. There may be exceptions, but I never herd of them.
But in the synthetic world of man, ever since he or she began to beat on a log, the human being was made subject to repetition.
It has been noted that Alzheimer's Disease is quite high among specified
vocations, for example, teachers, who quite often repeat the curriculum they
teach over an extended period of time.
The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's noticeable. I state the obvious, here, of course. But underneath all that is the
unnoticeable. In fact due to several natural mechanisms, the mind has been discovered to "prune away" unused sections of the gray matter as a sort of survival mechanism.
The disease may set in when this prune-away characteristic becomes so dominant
that it takes over much like the mitosis malfunction in cancer.
Ever notice the flood of pop stars and cheap music "artists" especially now. And the even greater flood of the
gullible people who fall for that sort of hustle. The trick is to come up with the same music with slight variations, compose a little bit of it and keep repeating it in a three minute "song".
People actually pay for that stuff, and they stop to listen to it. Even worse, they force others to hear it constantly day in and day out, against their will. And yet even worse, it's repetition is actually endangering their brain tissue.
If you go for a walk in nature you'll notice the random sounds. Frogs, crickets, the wind in the treetops, the moving waters of
streams or brooks. The random nature of the sound reaches more parts of the mind.
It peaks the awareness of the mind sending a stream of neurological activity to
all parts of the mind. The repetitive man-made sound is highly
distracting to any neurological activity in the brain that tries to break free
of the routine being established by the monotonous repetition. Eventually,
the mechanisms instilled in the brain for the function of selectivity, prune
away the unused portions which grow bigger and bigger until it becomes a sort of
non-surgical lobotomy.
Even worse, maybe some of the commercial concerns out there have realized this and that the resultant de-stabilization of the individual heightens the probability of irrational impulse buying. It's reminiscent of the famous play by Shakespeare, "Hamlet". In which Hamlet, the then prince of Denmark, arrives home from school only to find his father, the king, has been assassinated by means of poison pored into his ear while he slept. Except now the poison is a repetitious mix of sounds you can't turn off.
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