Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.

His conclusion is this: “Different cultures may use different media to express those base patterns—with different ingredients, for instance, depending on what’s available. But they are, at heart, doing the exact same thing. They are fundamentally playing the same music. And if you can recognize that music, you’ll blow people’s minds with a paradox ... See more