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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 01 August 2013 12:07:21AM 8 points [-]

Here's a tautological answer: It's because music is designed to be exactly the kind of sound that people want to listen to!

Comment author: James_Miller 01 August 2013 12:12:08AM 4 points [-]

Then why do I dislike the kind of sound that most people want to listen to?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 02 August 2013 12:48:15AM 5 points [-]

Cognitive dissimilarity.

Comment author: sediment 02 August 2013 09:57:09PM 6 points [-]

This seems like a fake explanation, or curiosity-stopper. I mean, natch, the difference has to be cognitive in some sense, in that it's a mental phenomenon and therefore relates to James_Miller's brain. But giving "cognitive dissimilarity" as an answer and treating it as an open-and-shut case seems pretty unenlightening.

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