why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?

[Belacqua]

So you seem to have the same problem as Bennyboy, since you seem unaware of what consciousness studies have actually studied.

What have I said which indicates to you that I have a problem? 

All I have said so far is that we have no idea how electrochemical activities present themselves to us as experiences. And you seem sort of to agree with this.

I also have asked for cases where neuroscience has told us something interesting about poetry, and so far no one has given me an example.

However, the soft sciences like psychology and sociology can study consciousness effectively.

All right, if you want to open up the field that much, then soft sciences can tell us about poetry. But neither of these sciences is neuroscience, so you've got the goalposts on the other side of the field now.

Adam Phillips, a British psychoanalyst, has many interesting things to say about literature. Most recently, he published a fascinating reading of King Lear. But this is exactly the sort of analysis that people do when they read the Bible, taking an old narrative and using it to explicate how people think. I'm fine with that; I do it too. But it's nothing to do with what we were talking about.