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But I think flavour is an outlier here. If I like different music to you, I think very little of the difference is in the ears and almost all of it is in the m

But I think flavour is an outlier here. If I like different music to you, I think very little of the difference is in the ears and almost all of it is in the mind. One reason why I think this matters is that the brain is mutable, and it's very likely that I could learn to like a kind of music that I don't like at the moment. Maybe I could also learn to like a flavour that I dislike at the moment, but I probably couldn't learn to care much about a flavour that I can barely detect.

robbrown451 9y ago
Of course "flavor" also includes things in the nose i.e. olifactory system, and I'd guess that most things that people talk about with wine are happening there. So yes, there are genetic differences that affect taste probably more than hearing, at least at the actual sensory organ. But the other thing to remember is that the brain is physical too, and can be subject to genetic differences. It's just that we probably understand how the tongue affects taste more than we can understand how the brain affects other preferences (including flavor)....because the brain is so ridiculously complicated and interconnected.