We know music is pleasurable, the question is why?
Related: recent studies have shown that there are people with &quot;musical anhedonia&quot;, and that this condition may affect 3 to 5% of the world population [1]. These people &quot;get&quot; music, meaning that they can learn to sing or play an instrument, remember and recognize melodies etc., but they are completely unable to receive any pleasure from it. As someone who gets a significant amount of his daily joy from listening to music and who always believed in music to be a universal language, I find this astonishing.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Musical_anhedonia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Musical_anhedonia</a>