In the first couple years of life, the right hemisphere is more active and dominant; babies have innate need and urge to share rituals, engage in nursery songs, and clever handy action games—all right-hemisphere modes of communication before language develops.

Music and art are cultivations of play, an innate human urge to move and express oneself in embodied ways, and everything in human experience is embodied in movement, but movement and embodied understanding have been neglected by people concentrating on information.

A revolution in psychology has shown that everything is embodied in movement; movement and time have been neglected by people concentrating on information, treating knowledge as extractable facts rather than embodied practice.

In infancy and early childhood, the right hemisphere is more active and dominant, and children naturally communicate through body language, music, rhythm, and imitation games, and this capacity for embodied, playful communication is the foundation of human connection before language develops.

Music is an innate need and urge for humans to move in expressive ways—dance, music, poetry—and art is the cultivation of play, not a specialized activity but an expression of fundamental human drives.