Some thoughts about the origin of humanity, music and the universe as psychic energy.

submitted by HibikiBlackCaudillo from (self.conspiracy)

Music is the type of art that I love the most and I feel It's the one that can really catch people's attention. How can it create different feels and moods depending on the notes played? I started relating it to ancient times, in which people worshiped planets in the solar system as gods. There are many archetypes that have been related to them, like the Moon, Mars, Venus and Saturn... and I started thinking that humanity was created by a higher power, since, the same way we can know the different feels created by music, we can "know" the vibes of our surroundings too.

Some scientists don't even consider the whole wave-particle duality when it comes to matter and that we should just consider all mass as being waves instead. Makes me think that the whole universe is made out of psychic energy somehow, with music being one of its purest forms. I wonder, since our brains can interact with the world so well, it makes me want to scream in despair; just who created us and for what purpose?

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[–]jagworms 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Music is the oldest and most primitive art form. All that exists is based upon frequency. Matter is just hard light.
https://youtu.be/eo0-dUkmRs0

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a hologram

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So humans make music for other humans so it stands to reason that we will find enjoyment and meaning in that which is made by others. We are a social species, and music is much like language it's a form of expression that doesn't really equate to material reality on a one to one correspondence.

That said the interesting question to ask is, would alien music sound good to us? It seems reasonable to assume that any alien species with a social dynamic would also develop some kind of music. But even if we ignore physical differences such as perception of sounds or differences in their atmosphere, there's a fundamental question of whether or not their brains are similar to ours? And if they are making music that they enjoy, would we perceive it as anything other than noise?

Thinking of birds, they sing, and we typically consider it to be pleasant. Would we have similar thoughts to any kind of alien song? Or would it simply not be appealing to us like it is to them? We used western pop music to totute Islamic terrorists at Guantanamo, would aliens start an intergalactic war with us to quarantine the greatest evil that has ever existed from spreading, Christmas music?

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If we think of the tangible, real, world as science does, as being made up of vibrating waves, fleeting particles, and forces that are merely ghost remnants, side effects of energetic actions of other dimensions we can't comprehend....then one has to question, is anything really tangible? In that context, your own thoughts may be just as tangible as the ground you stand.

People often ask if we are in a computer simulation, but they rarely ask if our whole world's eternity is just the fleeting thoughts, day dream, or lonely internal dialog of some higher being's conscious mind. Surely it is not a giant turtle.

It reminds me of a disturbing middle of the night animated short on PBS, where the odd people of a silly clay/stop-motion town realized they were just some guy's dream. Fearing he'd wake and they'd cease to exist, they devised a plan. They climed out of their slumbering god's head from his ear, while he slept, and proceeded to humorously strap pillows around his head, so the alarm clock would not wake him.

That show messed with my head as a teenager, when I saw it once 20-30 years ago, and here I go pondering it once again.