The universe is a drab, silent, colorless place

The universe is a drab, silent, colorless place. I mean this, quite literally. There is no such thing as color and sound in the universe, it’s just a bunch of waves and particles. But because we have creative minds, we perceive sound and music, taste and smells, color and beauty, all and wonder. All the stuff is in here in your mind, not out there in the universe.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · How to Know a Person by David Brooks

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