Everything we prefer or like since forever, do they have anything to do with peers or our very own brain?
Why is beautiful, beautiful? Do the standards of beauty change over time basing on cultural values? Probably we're strongly influenced by the images shown in media. Beauty is a construct based entirely on childhood impressions, influences and role models (Sherlock). Or is it deeply rooted responses from the brain based on goodness of form, symmetry, figure ground contrast or experience with stimulus?
Why do we prefer music that we prefer? Does it affect our emotional regulation, cognitive development or does it serve as means of self expression? Or is it that music is pattern and our brain loves pattern? Perhaps it fools the brain into thinking it as speech.
Why do we prefer certain colors? Is it experience based feedback we receive about a particular color that we tend to like it so much. Maybe we tend to get attracted to red since it causes a higher level of brain activity in areas of perception and attention. And BTW do we all see colors the same or differently? Is my red your blue? Is our brain's response to the experience of the outside world same as everyone else's ? These silly thoughts have been bugging me for a while even when dozing.
We've been raised and accustomed to limited choices of lifestyle, tastes and ideology. That probably explains it all. I have absolutely have no idea why I'm typing this horse faeces. These moronic thoughts are a pain in different parts of the anatomy.