David Darling

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Something You Should Know · How to Harness Your Intuition & The Surprising Science Hidden in Music · 15 Sep 2025 podcast

So um you probably know that we we've got a couple of spacecraft that are are now in interstellar space, the Voyagers one and two, and they both have um an LP essentially attached to the side carrying ninety minutes of music.

everything from Beethoven to Chuck Berry, you know, samples of their music.

Uh even with a little so it's it's it's just like a a regular LP and they've even included a little stylus so they've if any aliens find it, they can figure out how to play it.

And it makes you wonder if would they recognize it as music?

Do they have music?

Uh and would we recognize what they play as music?

I believe we would, because there are common elements to all of the varieties of human music which are tremendously varied.

I mean, they might have different hearing, for example, they might uh

might have different styles of music.

I think we'd still recognise it as as music.

So I think it kind of has like a cosmic significance as well as being something h human related.

And certainly there's music in the

The animal world.

I mean gorilla guerrilla mothers, for example, will hum to their young, just as human mothers do, you know, sort of make up a little lullaby on the spot.

So it goes beyond human uh experience certainly.

Um and I believe that if there is, you know, uh intelligence out there that it will have a form of music too and and we would probably recognise it as music.

is called the Neanderthal flute, which has been dated to fifty to sixty thousand years ago, was found in a cave in Slovenia.

And it was found near a hearth that was used by Neonatols.

So we're not even talking about modern humans here.

And it's uh it's a bone of it's a bone of a cave bear, a young cave bear, and there's been holes bored in it at certain spacings, and replicas of this flute have been made today, and you can actually play.

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