What musicological explanations exist for cultural preferences apparent in mathematical properties of rhythms?

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• Why do different musical cultures prefer different mathematical properties in rhythms?question0.866
  Open ethnomusicological question raised by observed pattern of cultural preferences for Euclidean vs. reverse Euclidean vs. non-Euclidean rhythms.
• Euclidean string status correlates with cultural musical preferencefinding0.757
  Empirical observation: Euclidean strings favored in classical/jazz/Persian music; reverse Euclidean strings have wider appeal; non-Euclidean rhythms used in sub-Saharan African music.
• Individual mechanical explanations for each property are too specific to provide a general explanation for why living structure repeatedly appears across all domains.claim0.744
  Alexander's argument that case-by-case mechanical explanations fail to address the universal recurrence of living structure
• This theory doesn't have to correspond exactly to human behavior or social customs; we only need analogs useful for program correctness.claim0.732
  The speech act theory for programming can be simpler than human models.
• The results are more widely applicable; similar results will come from asking people in other cultures to answer analogous questions.claim0.731
  Universalist claim predicting cross-cultural generality.
• Many rhythms used in world music are Euclidean rhythms generated by Bjorklund's algorithm.finding0.729
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.728
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.727
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty