music is the cosmos waking up

The mathematics of the universe is embedded in the music of the soul.


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Ubiquitous. Everywhere, in everything. We are extending the neural net of our brain.

It won't be "SkyNet" it will be "UsNet" - the network will be us.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/516486/todays-phones-and-tablets-will-die-out-like-the-pc/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130627

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Robots in Space. The new frontier.

 I predict that our robot friends will understand and embrace our 30,000 year friendship with "mans best friend" dogs. "'Bot's best friends".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcuFk-QK5CM

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The Origin of Mathematics, or “How music gave us the stars”

I have developed a theory on the origins of mathematics.

Or at least, I think I developed it, my Google searches have not resulted in any similar thoughts, so I’d appreciate any commentary on this topic that folks have or discover.

I started by thinking about music.

One of the radio stations I listen to (KDHX.org – an incredibly interesting and eclectic public radio station) was interviewing a musician. I apologize that I do not recall his name. During the interview the musician mentioned that music is really composed of a lot of physics and math. From vibration and frequency, to the physical impact of air density and eventually including the math of music notation - which is full of ½ notes, ¼ notes, rests  (you get my point). It takes a lot of math to make music, even if you are not aware of it.

What I then started wondering about was the origin of the human experience with music. Music seems to have been with us since the dawn of our consciousness. The earliest known flutes date from 35,000 to 43,000 years ago. And these are the flutes that survived. The human voice has been with us all along (approximately 150,000 years) and we probably have been singing the majority of that time. Many suspect that instrumental music in some form (drums, hollow logs, vibrating gut strings, bone flutes) has been around since the very beginning, but evidence of these instruments has simply vanished, back into the earth.

Therefore, we seem to have been making music since our inception. Perhaps even before Homo Sapiens (us) with the human lines that came before us and even with our cousins, the Neanderthal. Music is part of what makes “us”, it really is part of our DNA.

Humanity, then, it seems, is not the toy maker, but the music maker.

So here’s my theory – since Music is based upon mathematics, it was Music itself that configured the human mind to conceive of mathematics to begin with. It re-engineered our brains (as all technology does) to understand the fundamental characteristics of the universe (what better way than with harmony, eh?). Music led us to perceive the mathematics that constitute the fabric of space and time itself. We did not “invent” math, we “discovered” it, and Music was the ship that got us there.

And once we discovered the universe of math, we re-engineered the world. Math is in everything we do - - it’s in our houses, our cars, our communications, our medicine, our energy our space station, our economy, our moon and Mars exploration and anything else you can think of that has a technology basis to it. Math allows us to peer into the heavens and understand the stars. And one day, math will take us to the stars as well.

I wonder what kind of music we will be playing along the way?

"Across the Universe" by the Beatles?

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Mind Matters 4 - Social Media: re-enginnering how we communicate

Episode 4 of Mind Matters - the impact of social media on interpersonal communications and the perception of "privacy" and "self identity".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObyTxdT9-uQ


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Mind Matters 3 - Cloning

 The third in the series, Mind Matters - Cloning
Discussion on the impact of humans genetically controlling our own DNA destiny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkePrmJ6qTY&feature=em-upload_owner


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