When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.
Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.
There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.
Sometimes neuroscientists ask impossible questions.