I do think our brains are wired to like rhythm like someone tapping their foot at the perfect rate or rhythm in music. Cows like music too: "Classical music increases cows’ milk yield, study finds" - https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/classical-music-increases-cows-milk-yield/

It's why I always ask musicians if they know we know that they are sad, happy, angry etc when they are playing. We can literally feel when you're into the music.

Acoustics are complex mathematical functions so your brain is actually doing what it loves best, Math.

I recently listened to a podcast that covered this exact topic. There is much more known about this than the other posters are aware of.

TLDR but the whole podcast is highly recommended:

All species that can learn vocalizations, such as birds and humans, will dance and respond positively to music. Songbirds learn songs by making vocalizations that it determines to be pleasing. In this case "pleasing" means when the processing of the musical sound triggers a release of dopamine in a way that other sounds don't. When a songbird learns a song it likes, it will sing it to attract a mate whose brain will also release dopamine in response to hearing it.

The answer to why humans like music has been researched and is understood. Just as it does with birds, music triggers a release of dopamine and dopamine makes you feel good. This phenomenon can be used for social benefit as a tool to cause the release of dopamine in other humans.

There is a compelling theory on the harder question of why human (and bird) brains can understand music in ways other animal brains cannot. The same networks in your brain that can learn speech, or generically, networks in any brain that has ability to learn vocalizations, are speculated to be necessarily receptive to music. This is because the brain must learn melody, rhythm and creative expression to control the muscles that move vocal cords in ways that intentionally shape sound to produce creative speech and song.

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Before you get downvoted because "cuz evolution," I researched a hypothesis as an undergrad that described a potential social advantage stemming from music perception.

Most primates' social group size is limited, among other things, because you can only keep so many relationships going smoothly. Mutual grooming is probably the most common conflict resolution activity. There are others, but the point one paper made was that they're one-on-one sort of activities. But what if an activity was sound-based? The hypothesis centers on the idea that music, singing, and dancing were critical in exploding the maximum number of humans in any one social group since it gave them all something pro-social that they could do together at the same time.

Think about it: we don't just like music, we share music. We gather in huge arenas to experience the same beats. We have formal dancing as the basis of traditional and romantic social functions. Music can be social glue.

I used to until I got on OCD meds. It was unsettling how quiet my brain has been. I'm now baffled as to how thinking happens when I can't hear myself think anymore.

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I never thought to wonder what brain waves are.

This is not at all what I expected.

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Haha, it's often hard for me to listen to music these days for a reason: I'm a professional performing musician and music theory teacher. It's hard for me not to start analyzing what I'm hearing and thinking how I would explain it to students. Music just feels like work these days (it didn't always). But, I've made some major life changes and I am looking forward to just listening and enjoying very soon.

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Isn't the question you're asking also part of the problem? You want some external force to impose accountability? How does that work?

Do you see the average American voting sensibly? Do Americans educate themselves on how the world works, understand trade offs, make rational choices between the options available?

There probably are people out there trying to do good even in the political arena? Are you one of them? If you're not, do you try to identify them and support them?

Don't like rich businesspeople - set up a company and run it the way you think companies should be run.

"Who will guard the guards themselves?" Who is going to stop them? When they are already of the highest authority in their country/ in the world.

They can bribe or threaten anyone they need to with their wealth and authority. They can control the media so their crimes do not get exposed. Or shift the blame to someone/ something else.

Laws were supposed to stop these kind of things, but they can just change the law to suit their needs, since the laws are created and controlled by people.

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Every government has this lack of accountability. Every now and then they'll sack someone that gets called out in the media to save face, then rehire said person to another roll.

Rinse. Repeat.

> Is this even relevant to the situation either in c# having such qualifiers or in classes and structs being sufficiently similar for that to be feasible (if only everything had been different)?

C++ is pretty much that way; structs and classes are mostly the same thing and the developer chooses whether they want to allocate it on the stack or whether they want to put it in dynamic memory.

In C# - and managed languages in general - class instances are always allocated in dynamic memory. Structs were really just added for windows interop, though they do have other limited uses.

Who's going to hold them accountable?

People holding the accountable = revolution.

The courts and the police? Paid for by the politicians and the wealthy.

Fascinating, I experienced that second fear just last night.

Who’s going to hold them accountable?

The people? That would take a revolution.

And half of people would line up to lick the boots of the ones that act the worst. That really hampers any hope for a revolution.

Dude I write books for a living and I have to write in complete silence lol. We're both agreeing about the same thing, I'm just being kind of a dick.

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