Hey, no problem. Not trying to &quot;prime&quot; you here, this is just how I talk. I&#x27;m not that strategic. If you think it would help, I&#x27;d be happy to get on a call&#x2F;skype? I just feel like there&#x27;s some miscommunication going on here and I&#x27;d like to clear it up if I can.<p>1) Research:<p>I responded to your other comment with some research links. Here they are again just in case: 
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More on our site as well, and we are working on the bibliography still. Some of it won&#x27;t relate directly to your questions, such as the slow-wave stuff, because it&#x27;s meant to be a general reference for what we&#x27;re doing as a whole.<p>2) Pretty Charts:<p>The pretty charts you see are direct copies of the EEG analysis by Giovanni. We did try to make them pretty, but if you&#x27;re interested in the originals check out the analyses Giovanni did. He&#x27;ll be on at some point to explain them further if you want to direct some questions to him directly.<p>3) Your study procedure recommendation<p>Regarding your study procedure recommendation, that&#x27;s a great idea. We did something very similar to that in the Focus analysis above. 3 conditions: No Music - Music Without Stimulation (placebo) - Music With Stimulation. To the untrained ear, the music was indistinguishable. Most people can&#x27;t tell which is which, and the feedback we got from the subjects confirmed it. It was actually really interesting: some of them asked to be able to keep the placebo-music (not calling it that, obviously), saying they worked better on it, when their results often told a different story.<p>Next study will be double blind and have more subjects. Giovanni feels we have enough information now to do it right.<p>So, someone above asked about the AI thing and I&#x27;m happy to explain it. I&#x27;ll paste a lot of that below. Although I have to say I&#x27;m not sure what textbooks are calling anything these days. When I talk to programmers right out of college sometimes there&#x27;s a bit of confusion as they talk about patterns I know, but use different names. I grew up programming on an 8088, and I&#x27;ve been working for myself for 13 years, mostly by myself, so I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m behind on a lot of things.<p>Having said that, I&#x27;d probably call what I&#x27;m doing &quot;Emergent&quot; because there are many competing little pieces. Let&#x27;s see if I can explain it quickly here, though please don&#x27;t be too hard on me I&#x27;m trying my best to answer a lot of questions, but I&#x27;m really happy to go more into later after all this dies down :) Conceptually, you could think of it as first creating what I&#x27;ll call &quot;song-bot&quot;, which acts a kind of overlord, and has some instructions from me (like maybe there&#x27;s some specific chords I want it to use, keys to avoid, tempo, brainwave protocols, genre, etc, etc). This song-bot guy then spawns a bunch of little other bots that compete with each other for the right to play&#x2F;fade in&#x2F;or generally be a part of the final result. These little guys have different characteristics, like a &quot;drum-bot&quot; might has different places it &quot;wants&quot; to be placed, and so generally competes with other drums, but not always. Sometimes I&#x27;ll even have little &quot;bots&quot; for individual notes of a certain instrument. They obey certain rules of course, to form a background, drum line, or a simple melody, and then they pass that information along to subsequent incarnations (there&#x27;s some learning involved in that process, though I hesitate to give it any textbook term - man, you have me terrified here of defining something wrong! :) ). Through that learning, the pattern the original little guys made has more weight and will tend to repeat. But again, not always.<p>After a while, out of all these smaller, simple processes form a very complex song. Complexity &quot;emerges.&quot; So I call it a kind of &quot;emergent intelligence.&quot;<p>The resulting song can be quite complex and varied. Of course there&#x27;s more to it, because songs have sections and clever variance, but all in all the genres I&#x27;m using are very structured. Techno especially, is very easy for the AI. Sometimes I&#x27;m tasked with creating a theme in a particularly difficult genre, and that&#x27;s when it gets really tricky&#x2F;fun (such as some of the Indian ones, which were labors of love). In these cases, I may have to re-rerun many &quot;generations&quot; of the AI through the same song from beginning to end, with different parameters&#x2F;instruments, but with the same patterns&#x2F;learning, because what can happen in these cases is that it starts out simple, and increases in complexity as it goes, so the start can sometimes be a bit boring.<p>Also keep in mind this is just a conceptual explanation. The code is much less amusing. Thinking of naming processes &quot;bots&quot; just for fun though.<p>I hope I explained it OK. Listen, I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s Watson or anything, or even that I&#x27;m following the definition of &quot;emergent intelligence.&quot; I didn&#x27;t go to a textbook to make this, it&#x27;s really just a necessary step I had to take in order to make the computer do what I wanted it to do. I tried out some different ideas, and this one worked the best, in my opinion at least.<p>- Adam from Brain.fm