> Hearing Beethoven's Ninth is really different from studying the frequencies with an oscilloscope. I'm not sure that's a good analogy. When you hear Beethove

> Hearing Beethoven's Ninth is really different from studying the frequencies with an oscilloscope. I'm not sure that's a good analogy. When you hear Beethoven's Ninth, you're not understanding it any more than someone who drives a car is understanding the car. You can enjoy it. Which is to say, you have an appreciation for its acoustic beauty but that doesn't really have anything to do with understanding it. Perhaps there is some intelligence that set up the cosmos and they get some aesthetic pleasure from it. And perhaps our experience is too foreign from those being's to get the same pleasure from it but that does not mean that minus that experience we can't understand entirely how it works.