This sequence will serve to bring together ideas of random 'noise' and consciousness. The same medium (radio) that can give us an experience of human communication  – the illusion of the presence of another conscious speaking being – also gives us noise; the conversion into sound of the phenomenon of random bits of electromagnetic energy moving through the cosmos. This too has meaning, if we only knew it; reporting on the activities of stars, the composition of materials, and so on. It's a matter of tuning-in.

But who is doing the tuning? And to what?