Oh, this is a very interesting question that has baffled neurobiologists and psychologists and they have failed to answer. There is an interesting book by Oliver Sacks (the guy who wrote “Awakenings”, the true story that later became a movie with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams and the famous book “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”) called “Musicophillia” that ponders on your question.
Oh, ElI5: Clever people ask this question too, they cannot find the answer. There is a book by a very very clever man that doesn’t answer it either but is fun to read.
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