Seth Horowitz, a neuroscientist and author of the book The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind,18 believes vibration-based communication will develop everywhere that life arises in the universe: Vibration sensitivity is found in even the most primitive life forms, even bacteria. It’s so critical to your environment, knowing that something else is moving near you, whether it’s a predator or it’s food. …If we find life on other planets—if it’s more complex than microbes or viruses—they’ll have vibrational sensitivity.
