> in this case the rewarding effect of acoustic stimuli in humans, can be powerfully maximized. There must exist patterns in music-space that would have profoun

> in this case the rewarding effect of acoustic stimuli in humans, can be powerfully maximized. There must exist patterns in music-space that would have profoundly greater impact on human minds than those our low-wattage brains can find. There is a huge presumption here which is that all humans share the same reward maximization function. In other words, that culture, upbringing, personal history, and random variation don't strongly affect it. I don't see much evidence that this is true. It's more likely that, yes, there are sounds that have profoundly great effects on people, but each has their own. I would be very surprised if some AI trained on a global dataset could produce a set of sinusoids that tickled my neurons to anywhere near the same degree as the sound of my daughter's voice saying she loves me, or the song I heard when I was falling in love for the first time. Remember, each of us is our own unique highly mutable neural net too.