Indra’s Net

Indra’s Net

Indra’s Net

The human brain creates electromagnetic vibrations and waves which radiate out from the skull into the surrounding space. A transceiver could be devised that would be able to receive and decode these messages, and transmit like messages to another human. Indeed, two humans so equipped could communicate directly brain to brain. A whole earth of such humans could tune into a planet-wide symphony of celestial music.

It is readily apparent that electromagnetic waves such as these are not destroyed by distance or time; their effects are eternal. Not only could they be used to communicate over long distances between stars and galaxies, but they will remain until the final Omega Point of the universe billions of years from now; we truly are immortal, to the extent that we think.

These electromagnetic waves are like music in that they are complex sequences of frequencies and intensities. This human celestial music is amplified by the number of humans cogitating; to the extent that their brain waves resonate at like frequencies and for like durations, they create overtones of musical harmonies that are eternal, deep and collective; a symphony of the human species for all eternity and over the whole universe.

These songs also create a way for humans to communicate with other species, including mechanical or computerized creations of humans themselves; and of course for computers to communicate with themselves. In fact, life and intelligence can ultimately utilize these electromagnetic symphonies to embody life and intelligence in and of themselves.

The electromagnetic waves produced by our brains do not exist in isolation. The frequencies, sequences, durations and rhythms of each individual brain are superimposed on each other. The total effects are so complex that they can only be likened to music; for it is musical sequences of frequency, timing, and rhythm that represent the most complex patterns which the human mind is capable of holding in attention at any given moment.

The brainwaves of one individual overlap with another’s, with complex feedback loops affected by partial synchronizations caused by language, religion, love, and innumerable other human commonalities. These feedback patterns extend to the ends of the universe, no mater how faint, world without end.

Music and song were the first achievement of the human brain, a leading indicator of the brain’s future powers and causing feedback loops creating both the necessity and the means for intellectual development.

It is both appropriate and beautiful that music and song, which to us perhaps appear to be vestigial capabilities with no more utility than the appendix, are in reality the mainspring of our past intellectual triumphs and pivotal to our future destiny.

Without the capability to hold in mind complex sequences of frequencies and rhythms, our species would never have been able to learn language and other complex mental phenomena. Without these same musical capabilities which allow us to hold in mind multiple perspectives on time, space, and pattern recognition, we would never be able to learn to produce the intimately detailed and resonant feedback loops necessary for the future intellectual destiny of the multiverse.

"It’s all a matter of timing..."

Ron Stephens

November 15, 1998