why do we feel discomfort when hearing certain sounds like chalk on a black board…

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Or ice shaving, or silverware scretching a plate, or powders starch being compressed? Why do we cringe when hearing those sounds?

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I don’t know but I always wondered if there was some evolutionary thing carrying over to the present, like nails on a chalkboard or silverware on a plate triggering the same part of the brain that listened for predator claws on stone thousands of years ago or whatever.

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