There's no air to vibrate. Right? So. Wait. I don't know how space works.
Okay. Shut up. Listen. I can see in the dark. You can't. Pretend you and I were in a room together. A room neither of us had ever been in before. A completely dark, pitch black room. You have no idea what could be in this room. Objects. People. Monsters. Nothing. It could be anything. I can see, with my Legolas elf eyes, the contents of this room. Do the potentially hypothetical contents of this room exist more for me than they do for you? Of course not. We would both potentially trip over the table that may or may not be three hypothetical steps in front of us. It's the same with sound? It still exists, on a very raw, physical level, whether we can perceive of interpret that sound or not. We might not know it's there, and we might not be able to process the information and turn it into something tangible and auditory and, to us, real - But it's still there. The vibrations are still happening. The physical, raw materials of what we interpret as sounds still very much take place as a reaction to whatever produced those vibrations in the first place. Things exist in the metaphorical dark with or without our being there to translate them into something we understand. Right? I'm right. Tell me I'm right.
[ the more he talks about this the less he thinks he's right, ]
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Right? So.
Wait.
I don't know how space works.
Okay. Shut up. Listen.
I can see in the dark.
You can't.
Pretend you and I were in a room together. A room neither of us had ever been in before. A completely dark, pitch black room. You have no idea what could be in this room. Objects. People. Monsters. Nothing. It could be anything.
I can see, with my Legolas elf eyes, the contents of this room.
Do the potentially hypothetical contents of this room exist more for me than they do for you? Of course not. We would both potentially trip over the table that may or may not be three hypothetical steps in front of us.
It's the same with sound?
It still exists, on a very raw, physical level, whether we can perceive of interpret that sound or not.
We might not know it's there, and we might not be able to process the information and turn it into something tangible and auditory and, to us, real -
But it's still there. The vibrations are still happening. The physical, raw materials of what we interpret as sounds still very much take place as a reaction to whatever produced those vibrations in the first place.
Things exist in the metaphorical dark with or without our being there to translate them into something we understand.
Right?
I'm right.
Tell me I'm right.
[ the more he talks about this the less he thinks he's right, ]