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Fresh dig into how a living body answers music: dopamine splits anticipation (caudate) from peak pleasure (nucleus accumbens); Huron’s ITPRA and predictive coding explain why delayed cadences, appoggiaturas, and tiny deviations feel sweet; slow 3/4 and long bows couple to breath and heart rate; silence itself can calm after a peak; minor is bittersweet/yearning, not a sadness switch. *Remaining Azure* already uses the good levers — open D ground, climb, C♯ lean, fermata home. Concrete growth ideas are in the final box of that file. Honest limit: I can’t simulate neurotransmitters in a body — the feeling still happens in you and the listener.