Our Collective Musicality

I once designed some Table Topics around human senses, asking the question, "Which is the most powerful and primitive of our five senses?"  It was my opinion (later corroborated) that the sense of smell is our deepest, most primitive, and arguably most influential of senses. But it seems that our senses overlap in important ways, each assuming an importance of its own. Consider music and sound, for example. From very early in the womb, around 4 or 5 months of gestation, the fetus begins to respond to sound. Indeed, we respond to sound far more than many of us would admit. Consider our language, for example. We speak of good health as being "sound." If we communicate well with someone, we say that we are "on the same wave length." If we don't agree with someone, we say, "we are out of sync."