Beat Bound Repeat of Sound

Why do humans enjoy the beat of music, but other animals don't?

Pretty much any human seems to enjoy the beat of at least some type of music or another, but when it comes to any other animal, it is very rare from what we know so far. Tests have been done with a few different species of animals, and they can act more calm or more aggressive based on the type of music (including adjusting the pitch and using natural sounds from that species), but this seems different than enjoying a beat and or rhythm. It's likely any species would become more calm or aggressive from hearing sounds which would instinctively be a positive or aggravating sound for it in nature. But enjoying the repeat of sound of a beat, bound,  is un-heard- of in other animals, from what I know. 

Recognizing repetition can be an instinctively appealing aspect, as i further described in a post from 10 months ago; Conscious Recognition. This, combined with sounds which are in themselves instinctively appealing, could be a potential explanation for why people enjoy music so much. But why don't other animals?

The key might be the ability to recognise connected, short-term repetitions of sounds. In order to recognize the repetition of an ongoing beat, the mind has to simultaneously access memory of the current individual segment of beat, as well as the previous beat segments. For simplicity, if each beat segment is considered 1 “factor” (as 1 sound for the memory to store), then multiple beat segments would be multiple factors for the memory to access. Accessing multiple recent beat factors simultaneously in ongoing memory, would be the ability to recognize the connection of repetition, between the factors. This is just the 1st step of a simple regular repeating sound, but once a beat includes multiple pitches and tones repeating, there are more factors for the mind to recognize the repetition of the sequence of sounds. 

Subconscious memory access seems to not be as good at making the required connection between multiple factors. The subconscious can quickly recognize a basic repetition of what it has saved in memory (as I further mentioned in a post from 1.5 months ago; Repetition Recognition), but accessing that factor accurately, along with many additional factors and any connection between them, does not seem to be part of the function of the subconscious. Assuming other animals mostly use subconscious reactions (as I described in a post from 4 months ago; Human Advantage), this could explain why they don't seem to recognize or enjoy the beat of music. This is the general majorative, and as animals evolve, it's likely the most intelligent of them could have occasions of more complex memory functions and the potential for more elements of music.

When the mind uses the ability to access multiple factors in memory, and their connection or interaction, this seems to be the category of conscious memory access. I explained more details of my hypothesis of the function of consciousness in a post from 2.5 yrs ago; Conscious Comprehension. Using the conscious mind, an individual can access memories of multiple beats, as well as multiple factors of sound within each beat. The mind can access the recent memory of the time period of the interaction of repetition between these multiple sounds (factors). 

This may be the fundamental requirement for the mind being capable of acknowledging the basic components of music, and with the complications of the various processes of the mind, this could allow portions of music to then be saved in subconscious memory (kind of like words are saved and accessed in memory). As I described in more detail, in a post from 9 months ago; Subconscious Conscious-Memory Access, this mind function could allow music to be recognized later, even without the same initial degree of consciousness. 

Considering music to involve various segments of multiple factors of sounds, it may be understandable why animals or the subconscious mind does not typically recognize the repetition between multiple segments or beats. Using conscious memory access, humans can more readily make this connection of interaction between factors of beats, and enjoy the Beat Bound Repeat of Sound.