🤔 you are a song
- half-formed rambling analogy of "mind" and "song"
- common "computing" analogy: brain as a "parallel" computer
- instead, brain as song, as "field" (in the physics "electro-magnetic field" sense), as analog soup of bouncing frequencies and patterns
- to me, always a wonder when I remember that all sound can be represented as a wave
- just a single number (the amplitude), varying over time
- zoom into a song in a music program, goes from a complex squiggle, to just a line going up and down (looking close enough, a single moment is barely different from any other)
- a speaker - any surface moving forward and back linearly
- ...and yet, every sound ever heard, every song ever performed (or to be performed) can be captured
- mind as a symphony of parts
- patterns/waves "bouncing around" the substrate of the brain (repeating, looping, recurring, "surviving over time")
- changing the substrate in the process, reinforcing certain patterns, "carving grooves"
- memories as latent patterns to be re-triggered
- habits as patterns to be re-triggered
- multiple sub sounds can be "added together" into a new sound
- two separate pond ripples intersection, then continuing on
- any given "spot" experiencing an amplitude, experiencing a sound
- a single amplitude, and yet, over time, a superposition of sounds
- how many "points" / neurons needed for "conscious experience"?
- conscious experience as mind sensing itself, a feedback loop
- delay, short term memory, what is in our attention
- maybe music "resonates" with us, because it literally "resonates" - how sound works is somewhat close to how the rest of the mind works
- (or, more mundanely, we evolved to care about sound)
- more correctly, a 3d "field"