Do trees make a sound… Yes, for the very same reason as frequencies in your mind makes a sound. Particles moving up and down in a progression in themselves aren’t sound, light, colour or any quality whatsoever [they are only what they are], but they are in a philosophical undefinable space which is like the philosophers stone and is the base nature of reality. When an object hits the subject [that space/Aether] it tells that observer what it is and what it represents. So if a tree falls in the forest it informs the Aether what has occurred ~ where the motion of particles interacting with observers = information.
When you hear that sound, frequencies in the brain are also telling the Aether the information concerning an event. Because we are consciously experiencing that bares no relation to those events, except that they are being observed ~ but the events remain true to themselves and continue to inform irrespective of of there being a conscious observer.
Consciousness is also information, when thought info hits the Aether it informs it of its requirements in the same way as sound, light or anything else. Then you get the qualia or quality of a thing. Essentially whatever information wants it gets, and the Aether is simply responsive to that in all the ways we know [at least] and our thoughts and conscious awareness and experience are no different or less temporary than that. Colour qualia is not the same response to info as physical photons, we can see it in our minds without there being an actual visual photonic image. This is simply because the information doesn’t always need to be manifest as particles, that requires more energy than is present and the Aether only needs to respond to what is required.
No one or thing outside of your mind needs information to be additive or cumulative [which due to energy being conserved is probably impossible], e.g. Light to produce extra physical properties [secondary to its specific informations. Hence the Aether takes the route of least effort and only produces simple qualia which the mind needs to see in order to experience a thing.
Consciousness = when informations not in a loop, set, line, particle or otherwise non-contained [is open ended] consciousness [a qualia] occurs.
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Of course if we can remove the mind body duality [as above], then its not a one way system. Ergo consciousness effects information and is not irrelevant.
It also means that our experience isn’t everything ~ its not all in our mind/s.
Information is very important - naturally and culturally (our current economy, for example, should be much more orientated towards Information than towards energy).
The allusion to aether is fitting, but even as the existence of aether can be supported, so can that of consciousness. Consciousness need not be a something, it can be a space, a void, to serve a function. Perhaps, as even ‘existence’ can not be spoken of, in a world of pure , non conscious effects, still, the concept of existence has a relationship to awareness, and not only that it is merely the word ‘existence’ which has no possibility of developing without a realized corresponding meaning, but,
that, what it re-presents would not be known. These are the effects which You say happen irrespective of their becoming conscious (of) , but still, these effects could not be known.
To give a simple example, the housefly lives and dies in a matter of a few weeks, and their experience of time, may be grossly different from other creatures, including man. now a very superior being, let’s say, who has a very speeded up view of a human lifetime, may again see timespans as incarnations between various big bangs, if in fact they do happen. Reality for such a creature would simply be measured as flows, without arbitrary signification of time and space. The objective world can only be understood as relative to awareness. When events happen, their happening can not escape this problem, and thisnisnwhat the big fuss over the difference between Heraclitus and Parmenedies consisted. Events break down, at the event horizon near a black hole, and objectivity itself is in such a conundrum. This is why,like aether, consciousness is a necessary event regulator, for existence to attain a dynamic equilibrium. It’s not that, consciousness really ‘exists’ but it develops in order to re-present a structure of space time, within which reality can be designated.
Indeed, and once known the conscious experience is making the same effect in reverse to info hitting the ‘Aether’. Naturally when i use that term i am not thinking of the element, its just a metaphor for an unknown universal [‘space’].
Yes the whole thing becomes more fluid and less physical as we speed up time and change perspectives. In fact if we put our foot to the floor, eventually that fluidity would resolve into a oneness ~ a bit like a blender to food, and that to me is perhaps what the Aether actually is, …?
Right yes, its perspective based reality kinda like a rainbow ~ which is different to each viewer.