"I Trust My Ears"

Apophenia is the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or random patterns, often leading to false interpretations or beliefs.

Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a meaningful image or pattern where none actually exists. It's essentially the human brain's habit of finding familiar forms in random or ambiguous stimuli, like seeing faces in clouds or hearing voices in static. This phenomenon is a type of apophenia, the broader tendency to find patterns and meaning in random data. 

The point is, your ears can be trusted, they just convert vibrations to neural impulses for your brain to interpret. It's your brain, that most easily fooled of human organs, that cannot be trusted.

Our ears aren't actually passive sensors -  they have active components. Our ears are suceptible to biomechanical damage which can affect our auditory perception. So both our ears and brain have a role to play.

The OP is only half right.  Yes, the brain is the CPU (Central Processing Unit) that processes and defines what the ears send to it.  That being said, how many of us get routine audiologic evaluations?  How many of us routinely clean our passive receptors?  Come on now, all you old audiophile farts out there?  When was the last time you had your hearing evaluated or Debroxed your ears?  Are you really convinced your hearing acuity is as sharp today as it was when you were young whipper snappers?  For that matter, how many professional audiophile reviewers get regular/routine audiologic evaluations?  Perhaps this little tidbit of CV should be listed or documented right before their personal impressions and specifications & measurements in reviews?

As for the requirement of decades or even years of training to teach our ears and/or brain to truly comprehend what they are sensing, well, I'm sure that kind of training investment is required for competently reading or deciphering XRAY, MRI, EKG, EEG and other such telemetry.  However, for music appreciation, I think the old adage applies:  "You don't have to know much about art to know what you like."

Your brain and ears work together to interpret sound waves as music so I trust both.  If it sounds good to me that’s what counts.  And it has changed over the years.  My brain is smarter and more experienced but my hearing isn’t as good especially at the top end.  

Crocodiles had tastes and we cannot convince them their tastes are bad habits...

A part of our brain is a crocodile...

A higher part need concept to appreciate higher meaning...

Our physical hearing is biased physically and physiologically, but we own another pair of ears, not visible in the physical plane but existing in the more subtle plane...

Sound is not mere physical meaningless waves but it is which  convey the meaning we read in the vibrating sound sources about his own state (human voices states qualities,instruments states qualities,a fruit we tap to decipher his ripebness state etc) This information about the vibrating sound source from which we can respond by resonating ourselves,this information quality is also "sound", it is also linked to a pattern we can see observing water or sand vibrating to some frequencies (Chladni and Cymatics of Hans Jenny).

Music in contrast is not mere sound but live on another higher meaning plane of his own manifesting through physical and non physical perceived sound state meaning...

Then we must be trained and educated to understand music... calling our starting point "my tastes" is often only reflecting the social programation linked to the social programming engineering of "our tastes"...

We must learn in acoustic and in music what is "timbre" meaning,what is musical time (duration,beats,Rythms), why it is not physically measurable as a creative event... etc...