why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?

[Angrboda]

That's really cool.  My usual response to something like this is to default to saying we really don't know, it's impossible to study, yada yada.  I guess I shouldn't be so hasty in concluding what we do or do not know from ignorance.

I'm afraid that the article doesn't help much. It says that poems we remember activate the part of the brain associated with memory, and poems we're trying to figure out active the part of the brain that works to figure things out. Etc. 

It doesn't address the real problem at all, which is how electrochemical events in the brain somehow present themselves to us as abstract ideas. No one has any idea how meat-cells expending energy give rise to thoughts of justice, and since good poetry complicates thoughts like this even more, one of the things good poetry does is to take us further away from any clear correlation between brain events and thought.

I'm betting you got a lump of coal in your stocking this Christmas.