David Grinspoon

So it also tells you something about that the progress of those materials towards life is not inevitable in every environment, that you need the right environment, but the stuff is everywhere.

Right, right, right.

Mostly guitar.

Well, funk and reggae.

Yeah, boy, that's a great question.

I would love to have the chance to try.

It could be a tough audience.

Yeah.

No, I mean, it's a really cool question because there's a lot of dimensions to that question if you start to think about it, because what is music?

Why is it that every culture on earth finds it important and valuable to put together sequences of frequencies and rhythms and do this thing that we call music?

And is it possible that that's so built into what it means to have consciousness and a brain and a culture that that would be something that would be shared by extraterrestrials?

I don't think it's impossible, but you know,

it gets to these deep questions.

First of all, what is music, and why is it so universal?

And second of all, how does it relate to our experience as conscious beings, and is that something that might truly be universal beyond just this planet?

Yes, yes, universal on Earth.

On Earth.

Could it be universal?

Could it be universal, capital U?

Right.