system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is music theory absolutely 'correct', or is it arbitrary because of how we've developed our music?
gpt
Music theory is really just a way of describing how we make music. Whenever someone does something new, we find a new way to describe it. Accidentals, microtones, diminished 11th chords, chord substitutions, 11/8 time... these things all had someone *doing* them before music theory had a name for them.