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Posit: any sufficiently detailed theory of intelligence should incidentally explain why humans like music. If yours doesn't, dig deeper 
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Couldn't it just be an evolutionary signalling thing? There's no deeper reason peacocks have big tails, is there?
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the basis of intelligence is the ability to understand patterns. I think music speaks to this instinct.
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What does 'understand' meant?
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If we’re a kind of RNN with reinforcement learning then music allows prediction followed by reward. Inherently pleasurable. Also whodunnits.
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Some animals entrain to rhythms, but not all. Birds often can, but e.g. cats can't. That suggests it's more than just predictability.
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Perhaps musical emotion is associated to human expression and bodily movements https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-music-make-us-fe/ …
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So music would imitate human expression (movement), which is linked to emotion.
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How could music be viewed separately? Or movement, or...?
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Schmidhuber's theory has music covered
http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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