Inspiration (connected to The Muse)

Maybe a little clarification is needed.

What makes some songs timeless? The scientific hypothesis would probably say something about a commonly shared neurological bio-chemical firing of a string of synapses, in some part of our brain's pleasure center. A more colorful description would bring up The Muses.

Not to belittle an artists ability to create, but why is it that sometimes a song resonates with nearly everyone? In one sense, the music isn't 'living' until it reaches the receptors in the listening public. The artist is a channel, a provider; but the key that opens the synaptic sequence comes from some ancient database of sound, commonly recognized as 'pleasurable.' That's the Muses songbook, to me.

If you consider how much genetic code is shared between humans, it's not unreasonable to assume some keys, or parts of these keys, are common to all of us. Then, looking at how much of *that* code is shared with other living species, and how we share other pleasure responses with them, I wonder if my dogs get transported when we play Cole Porter, John Coltrane...