Right here is where the problem occurs.
Conceiving ‘sound waves’ as ‘objective phenomena’ and ‘sound’ as ‘subjective qualia’ (presumed to arise inside a brain which is assumed to be the source of Consciousness).
‘Phenomena’ simply means ‘things that appear’.
Yet all appearances appear only in and to Consciousness. Which is to say no ‘appearance’ can be ‘objective’ in the sense that it is ‘outside Consciousness’
The experience of ‘sound’ is inseparable from the capacity to hear it. Hearing-sound is a facet of Consciousness.
This is not to deny ‘the objective body of each creature’ which are said to be part of the ‘objective world described by science’. Nor is it to deny ‘sound waves’ outside ‘the objective body’
It is, however, to recognise that the formulations of science relate only to idealized objects (quantum fields, quarks, atoms, molecules, and sound waves and bodies, planets, stars, galaxies, super-clusters and the universe) that are only Known within Consciousness.
The strength of a scientific theory rests in its capacity to correlate the ‘idealized behaviour of idealized objects’ (Known only in Consciousness) with the ‘observed behaviour of apparent objects’ (Observed only in Consciousness).
Conducting science is like deducing the rules that govern the behaviour of images depicting a ‘game-world’ on a computer screen. The correlation between the rules and the observed behaviour would enable predictions to be made about future behaviour of images on the screen.
Plainly, from studying the images alone, it would be impossible to deduce the nature of the ‘reality’ (the computer and electricity’) that manifests the images.
Similarly, all observations are manifested in Consciousness as ‘sensory images’ inseparable from the Consciousness in which they appear.
Science may describe the behaviour of ideal objects that correlate closely with the behaviour of observed objects, but it can never say anything at all about the ‘true nature of Reality’.
The only Reality that can be attested without theory or belief is Consciousness.
This is not to say only ‘my consciousness’ exists.
Plainly, there is in Reality no ‘me’ that can be said to ‘own’ Consciousness.
Plainly Consciousness is…
Sensing-sensations (colours, odours, flavours, feelings and sounds as experienced) and Knowing-ideas (number, form and meaning) with the Power to manifest sensory patterns within its own Awareness that accord with ideas to create the appearance of ‘my body’ and ‘my thoughts’ and ‘my feelings’ and ‘my surroundings’… as in a dream.
