My point is that what often feels “unsayable” in music doesn’t have to be mystical; it’s what happens when our brains use shared systems for pattern, emotion, and expectation to make sense of sound without ever turning it into sentences.

I agree, we are treating music and language as different systems with different objectives and results. However, we also know they partly rely on overlapping brain networks for items like structure, rhythm, and expectation and are empirically grounded in neuroscience.

Great insightful post!