The Significance of Music to the Universe and the Human Mind

The Significance of Music to the Universe and the Human Mind

As human beings, we strive for communion with others all around us. This is a daily exercise that we live by, moment to moment because it becomes our identity. How we achieve this communion is often delivered to us by exchange of sound. Our species many languages have always been represented by a system of symbols. A series of tangible objects and actions that are expressed in both sound and writing. But where this has value is also where it becomes complicated; we use this language to achieve communion by using the same system of symbols to express the elements of our lives that are abstract, and unique to the individual (Waking). These elements are emotions; feelings that dictate our observation of the world that we communicate with others in order to try and express something that can only ever truly be understood by the person discussing it.

What this means is that the state of communion that we seem to live for is quite simply an illusion. Feeling like the people around us both understand and empathize our lives, when in reality no one knows what is like to live in another persons’ universe.

Despite these complications, there is a great level of communion to be found within the senses, particularly sound. Why is this though? Behind every action and feeling there has to be a scientific explanation. So why is it that certain patterns in music, certain sounds in our lives, like the voices of our parents’, just sound like they are a part of who we are?

If one is familiar with the basic laws of science, one would know that energy does not die. It can be moved, it can transform, but it does not go away (Squires). Within each of our minds lies a force of energy containing all that we are, and all of our experiences. So to naturally enjoy music, these frequencies that are flying around, is actually quite astounding when an entire population enjoys the same sound, without having to have experienced the same life. Carl Sagan once said on his 1980’s TV show called COSMOS, “We’re made of star stuff.” What this statement implies is that we are all made up of the universe.

The idea of the big bang is a common theory that most scientists and everyday people agree with. If you look closely at how a big bang would work, you are able to see the connections with your particular life and your questions. In theory, the big bang would be exactly what its name would imply. There would be a tremendous amount of energy being spawned out of nothingness; the same kinetic energy that is the sound we hear today, because no energy can die. So what Carl Sagan said in his space based tv series “We’re made of star stuff” is not exclusive to matter. At the moment of the big bang, energy would begin to form, electrons and forming into neurons and protons, which entrap other electrons in their gravitational force; creating