The brain finds pleasure in structures, patterns, rhythm, predictability and the sound frequencies that operate around the speech spectrum. As for more complex forms of music, there is also a great degree of intellectual stimulation (not dissimilar to completing a puzzle, for example). We also enjoy music as a form of communication, as musical forms and ideas have developed intertextual meanings over time, which enhance and help support the message in a deeper way than say, just reading the words to a song (rhyming is a form of pattern making in language). The triad - a most basic, common form of chord - includes elements of the harmonic series which appear in spontaneously in nature.

They might in a different way we do not understand; same as the concept of mourning is exclusive to certain animal species, there may be certain behaviours that are unique to caterpillars you cannot fully understand or even be aware of.

I’m struggling to understand fully how “shaping one’s reality based on the decisions one makes”, “struggling to understand reality due to its ever changing nature” and “reality is shaped by perception, not by its true nature” are statements that are interconnected, and yet I can see they are all but one and the same thing. At the end of the day, the philosophy tries to put forward a way of life by which we are able to accept the outcomes of our decisions as part of the inner workings of an ever changing system of which we can only see but a few moving pieces. Not sure the writer wove the argument in a coherent way, as he starts discussing perception and the nature of reality through the butterfly parable and then jumps into decision making-shaping reality according to the Tao.

Not wanting to be bothered by people who can’t respect the right of others to quiet and peaceful enjoyment in public is now something to be ashamed of