History and Philosophy of Physics

Why We Love Music

Authors: Tariq Khan
Comments: 10 Pages.

A speculative essay on the nature of song lyrics and song melodies answering the question of "why humans love music." A proposed shared human subconscious mind can understand language but, while it can communicate with the sleeping mind via images in dreams, it can only communicate to an individual’s awake mind via what appear to the individual as a random recall of a musical song in working memory. Remarkable lyrics of a given song can thus be used by the subconscious as a means to communicate to an awake mind. A theory of subconscious communication, from Cormac McCarthy’s essay The Kekule’ Problem and the research of Jeff Hawkins showing the human brain storing sequences of patterns including songs, is used to support the proposal. Music is considered as "primordial change" or as being equivalent to a fundamental encoding of change in a quantum or digital universe. Music is proposed as possibly being the boot code for any experience.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics