Eli5. Why do we like music?

Question

I understand that it’s a chemical response, but why does our body hear an assembly of notes and go “ooOh that’s my jam! Here’s some of the good stuff” like how do certian tones benift us?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Our brains are evolutionary programmed to find a style we like from an early age; mostly based on what we’re used to hearing around us. This is because in the 10’s of thousands, or maybe 100’s of thousands of yrs our species spent being tribal, it was a social bonding mechanism.