and today (060219) listening to winnipeg new music festival interview with violinist performing phillip glass.  she mentioned how listening to the music is serene and calming, but that performing it is a different story.  so much repetition, must keep track.  have to almost separate onself from the music, not get drawn in in order to be able to perform it...

and then mention of angy elephants. suggested to be generically targeted toward humans as a result of devastating treatment recieved by them/parents decades ago...

you hear the most interesting things (big and small) on cbc... this morning tom allen mentioned people studying crickets to help understand our "sense of self".  initially through sound: we and crickets somehow manage to 'turn-off' our hearing when we emit sound - which is presumed to prevent us from harming ourselves.  since crickets have a rather less complicated nervous system, study has tried to isolate/understand this capacity in crickets as a way to facilitate understanding in humans.  corollary dischage is a signal sent to the brain as feedback to aid in self-monitoring

• Current Research Investigations of Corollary Discharge  (student summary)