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“Music evokes dual emotional natures. It functions hedonically, creating pleasure, and it functions eudaemonically, for the pursuit of a higher state of being—personal growth, virtue, tolerance, acceptance, transcendence. We can find that higher ground listening to an honest voice. I doubt we will find it in Al-generated music.”

“Eve-Marie noted that ‘although music is initially a social-emotional product created by the composer, a listener does not have to enter into a direct interpersonal interaction with the composer in order to appreciate the music.’ She concludes that emotion processing deficits in ASD are domain-specific, and are preserved in music.”