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Now this episode, we are talking about music.

So look, music is the art form that most of us, I think, feel the most strongly, don't we?

I mean, a lot of people go to the art museum and they're like, what the fuck am I supposed to get out of these paintings?

You know, but when we hear music, I think almost everybody responds to it in a deep and profound way.

All of us have those songs that return us right back to our childhood, right?

I have songs that I can barely listen to anymore because they remind me of past relationships or past times in my life.

There are still times that I hear a new piece of music and I suddenly become obsessed with it.

I need to know who made this sound and where can I get more of it.

And when you think about it, all of this is a little bit weird and mysterious, isn't it?

I mean, when we perceive music, what we're actually doing is perceiving different vibrations in the air at particular wavelengths.

And those wavelengths have mathematical relationships to each other, right?

Two notes that are an octave apart are literally double the frequency of each other.

So why should that be? Why should we as humans be so attuned to the physical properties of air vibrations

that we find them beautiful and emotionally moving?

I mean, this fact is I think one of the most fascinating and perplexing things about our species and about us as individuals.

What is it about music that means so much to us as a species and personally as people?

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