Carl Schmitt insistió en la secularización como elemento explicativo fundamental de la época actual. La secularización consiste en que el hombre moderno pone en lugar de Dios cosas terrenales. Y como la actitud metafísica es una constante de la naturaleza humana, puede considerarse entonces como la instancia absoluta, última a que apelar la Humanidad, la Nación, el Individuo, el desarrollo histórico o la Vida como causa de sí misma, factores del aquende con los que le sustituye. Esto sucede también con la Democracia cuando sintetiza aquellas instancias absolutizadas aunque con ello se desnaturalice la democracia que, en su estricto sentido, no es más que una forma de gobierno, de régimen político. Esto es la esencia de la politización contemporánea, la política invadiendo todo, si bien, paradójicamente, despolitizándose. Pues la democracia rompe así con la tradición política europea que es única.

I read a few years back that cab drivers in London grow a larger hippocampus in their brains as they gain what's known as "The Knowledge" (of the city's roadways), but I hadn't heard of any similar thing going on with musicians.
According to neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, musicians' brains differ from those of the general population in a number of ways, including having a stronger connection between the left and right sides of the brain (from an NPR interview):
"Gottfried Schlaug - up at Harvard... used brain imagery to measure the sizes of different parts of the brain. He found first, for example, that the corpus callosum - the big band which unites the two hemispheres of the brain - tends to be larger in musicians. And then he found enlargements of the cortex, the grey matter, in the auditory parts of the brain, and in motor parts of the brain to a degree which may be almost visible to the naked eye. So that, say, if one looks at pictures of brains, you might not be able to say this man is a genius or this man is a fool, or this man is a visual artist, but you could probably say that man is a musician."

Scientific List of Audiophile MP3 Players

Sound quality is to a certain extent a subjective matter. One listener's awesome, thundering bass is another listener's muddy, low-end nightmare. CNET lab guy Eric Franklin put a number of portable music players through a battery of audio tests using an Audio Precision ATS-2 Audio Analyzer to determine which players, based on frequency response deviation, total harmonic distortion and noise (THD+N), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), maximum power output, and crosstalk.
I'm not surprised that the Creative Zen came out on top, "with a frequency response deviation average under 1.47 dB, a -82.2 dB THD+N average, and a -83.6 dB SNR average."

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