But where does taste come from?

Another day, another blogpost reflecting on "taste". It's not a bad post, but there are a billion of these now, and the irony of that is that this has tended to leave them fairly tasteless and bland for me.We've probably all seen the Rick Rubin meme by now. Or maybe even better, the parody of the trend. People are afraid they can't do useful things anymore, because AI can do them better, so they hope they have some sort of edge over it with taste.To highlight the previous postBut what is taste? I would define it as some kind of sense of aesthetics and judgment coming from experience and intuition, being able to say whether something is good or bad without necessarily being able to explain why.This seems like a reasonable explanation. "Aesthetics and judgement"... coming from "experience and intuition". Okay, interesting.But where does taste come from? Every now and then there's a famous Rick Rubin or (sigh) Steve Jobs type character, who is a non-practitioner who undoubtedly does move…