Mozart's music improves performance on intelligence tests, problem solving, and spatial reasoning (Rauscher & Shaw)

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• Listening to Mozart's 40th symphony, something magnificent is happening; the music strikes to the core of the cosmos, not merely activating pleasure centers.claim0.782
  An example of an experience that the mechanistic cosmology cannot accommodate, indicating its inadequacy.
• Expanding one's space of possible goals to face outwards, exhibiting compassion toward other agents' goals, potentiates the increase of intelligence.hypothesis0.709
  Core proposed mechanism linking care and cognitive scaling.
• MCA creates a more tractable search space by smoothing the fitness landscape, mitigating the inverse problem and enabling survival of mutations that would otherwise be deleterious.claim0.708
  Subclaim.
• Verbal reports (the Turing Test) and homology to human brains are utterly inadequate criteria for assessing the status of novel, unconventional agents that offer no familiar touchstone of phylogeny or anatomy.claim0.705
  Core claim that standard criteria fail for novel agents.
• Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.702
  Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
• "Chess is structurally simple but functionally complex, because its rules are easy, but it is difficult to play chess well."concept0.702
  Flusser's exemplar of open game: functional complexity enables creative subversion through dialogical play.
• "Intelligence: the ability to reach the same ends by different means." — William Jamesconcept0.701
• What one must imagine is an incredible hive of activity, at every level of magnification—of music being made using more than two thirds of the 73 octaves of the electromagnetic spectrum—locally appearing as though chaotic, and yet perfectly coordinated as a whole.quote0.700
  Mae-Wan Ho's beautiful description of the living organism, which Alexander cites as poetic yet still mechanistic.