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To: Lane3 who wrote (2903)10/16/2006 5:18:18 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (3) of 10087
 
If you can recognize that human tastes can occur naturally without turning agnostic, there's no reason not to recognize the same theoretical possibility for music.

In the case of human tastes we can infer an evolutionary mechanism. Some taste preferences would help one survive. So those would be selected for naturally.

In the case of music, there is no evolutionary mechanism that I can think of or that anyone else can offer.

So the two cases are quite different. And it seems unwarranted to attribute something to evolution in the absence of any known or inferred evolutionary mechanism.

Now somebody suggested some time ago here, random mutation. Random mutations don't have to be useful to survive, they just have to be not harmful. I couldn't say that this idea is wrong, but I can say that it is in the category as quite statistically unlikely. Especially as musical appreciation is found in almost all human groups and individuals (though it varies by individual, of course).
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