The Music of the Polytopes
Consciousness and the cosmos are both a cacophony and a ‘symphony’ of the vibrating strings of string theory, resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace.
(4 minute Michio Kaku video: https://bigthink.com/videos/the-universe-is-a-symphony-of-vibrating-strings-2 ) Music has an outward mathematical aspect, a ‘physics’ (material, mechanistic) and an inner aspect, a ‘subjectivity’, the music of music. ‘Music’, of which we can hear only a narrow band of the totality, may ultimately be ‘elegant’ geometric patterns of the spacetime continuum. These patterns may occur when the state vector collapses, a la, Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff; ‘elegant’ geometric patterns of the spacetime continuum that manifest within our inner subjective awareness, within consciousness-at-large, if such exists, and in outer objective mathematics.
Eugene Wigner’s unreasonable ‘effectiveness of mathematics’ may be isomorphic to the unreasonable effectiveness of music upon consciousness. Both follow from the ’reasonable’ effectiveness of natural selection. Our brains follow the logic and perhaps esthetics of the universe, not vice versa.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
May-Tzu