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Very off-topic, but, dancing doesn’t even require going to any classes. One can learn it by listening to music, learning rhythm from it, and moving body, snapping fingers.
Kinda similar to the idea of babbling and pruning. Snapping fingers (multiple ones from different fingers in row if needed) and moving body is kind of babbling, while music and felt sense how ‘off’ you are to the rhythm, are pruning.
Songs are often also connected to certain way of feeling. There are sad songs, angry songs, feeling joyful songs… etc. That can guide the way of movement during dancing as well, or even help connect to the emotions better in general.
It takes quite a bit of time to get good at this, though. But once muscles and body connects the wires, the fingers can kind of ‘translate’ the rhythm, and what needs to move to each part, shoulders, legs, etc. For me it’s one huge felt sense in general, but I could swear I can sense different parts of the songs and where they fit into body parts, like bass being usually suited rhythm for feet movements. The beauty of dancing is though, that you don’t even need to put it anywhere specific. Each song can be danced in any way you want anyways, and only you decide how to do it in the end.
I guess Daniel Dennett was right in the end, ha ha. I liked how his idea of there being no problem was dismissed so quickly in the text. I like his approach of degrees of freedom and very evolutionary view on the whole mentality of humans and other intelligence.