Archive - Philip’s Substack

February 2025

How do we know the things that we know?

In this article I propose a radical hypothesis:

Feb 26 •

July 2024

The Revelation Hypothesis

It is often said that music communicates or expresses emotion.

Jul 27, 2024 •

April 2024

March 2024

Music could be a Glial Illusion

An illusion is when a stimulus is presented to a person and that stimulus causes the person to falsely perceive something that is not there.

Mar 16, 2024 •

January 2024

The best iOS Tuner apps for Learning to Sing or Whistle in Tune

TLDR; CarlTune & Cleartune

Jan 30, 2024 •

Things that only exist because Music and/or Proto-Music came first

Music: Who ordered that?

Jan 25, 2024 •

Observations explained by the Hypothesis that Music is a Super-Stimulus for the Perception of Psychological Distance in Proto-Music

Jan 21, 2024 •

Music is a Super-Stimulus for the Perception of Psychological Distance in Proto-Music

Jan 3, 2024 •

December 2023

Yet Another Super-Stimulus Theory of Music

Hypothesis: Music is a super-stimulus for the perception of something. But what?

Dec 14, 2023 •

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