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love0_0all t1_itz7n9h wrote

We don’t know.

The part of the brain / nervous system that seems to respond most to music is located very near the center of our heads, making it really difficult to monitor in real time. As a result, we don’t have a good understanding of exactly why music makes us emotional because we have a hard time seeing what’s happening chemically and biologically when we listen to a song. However we’re working on this problem with AI and various ways of measuring our responses. Sounds are making physiological changes in our bodies, which can spur thoughts and feelings in ways which we don’t honestly understand exactly presently.

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schoki560 t1_itzhgwb wrote

if our brains don't know why music makes us emotional how will AI find out?

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beardyramen t1_itzx4q8 wrote

Because AI will not find out anything. It is not a sentient being.
AI is a tool that can be used to support our study of complex and intricate problems. With its data we can get to better understand our world.

It is not a brain, it is a "simulator" that delivers an output starting from an input that would be very similar to what a human would do with that same input, but AI does not think, feel or elaborate.

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schoki560 t1_iu042ip wrote

that's literally my point

If we don't understand it how will we feed data to an AI to understand it

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beardyramen t1_iu0k7uq wrote

I don't know sorry.

But i can try with an analogy:

Alexa/siri/whatever use AI to perform speech recognition. Nowhere in their software or hardware is anything that works remotely like the human ear or brain, but their response is human like. This human-likedness could be enough to open us to new understandings of the world.

Another one could be:

birds and planes, by no means the use the same processes to fly, still both do

Edit: It doesn't explain much, but consider that i have no idea what i am talking about, these are suppositions

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