Song 4 of 26 - The Unseen Eye

The fourth of the 26 songs is called "The Unseen Eye". Scroll down below the following videos for the lyrics and a brief discussion of how this song ties into the project. A blog post which lists all 26 songs, including 1 video for each song can be found by clicking here.



A direct link for the above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK29fTLXEf0


A direct link for the above video is at revver.com/video/328198/the-unseen-eye/


A direct link for the above video is at revver.com/video/292416/the-unseen-eye-ryan-edit/


A direct link for the above video is at revver.com/video/294948/the-unseen-eye-rob-vs-ryan-edit/


A direct link for the above karaoke version of this song is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHr_IVxtfgs


If time as we experience it is an illusion, where does that leave the Big Bang? The multiverse, the quantum observer, dark matter, consensual reality... this is a song about many things.

THE UNSEEN EYE
Music and lyrics (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

(In the distance we hear children, repeating a strange little skipping song out on the playground:)
(“All we are is a point of view
It makes me me. It makes you you.
Quantum waves are many things
Until we view them, then they spring
Into our world as what we see
It makes you you, and it makes me me”)

In the universe of all universes
Anything is possible
Everything has happened, and will happen again
In the universe of all universes
Grey and formless
Till you choose a point, to become the first -- when
You can think of it as data
This dark and shapeless void
Unrealized potential
In the static and the noise
Till in the universe of all universes
The unseen eye
Opened and collapsed the wave, and we entered on in

Now we know it’s the act of observation
That gives the world its how and why
So the big bang is just an illusion
It’s just the opening of the unseen eye

Now any single point that we choose for entry
Leads to a long chain
From the very first yes, or the very first -- no
All the laws of physics, all the rules of nature
Defined in an instant
By the very first choice, or the dice we throw
Though Einstein objected
To imagining a God
Who gambles for Creation
The thought was just too odd
But deep within us in every living creature
There’s a connection
To this shared consensus, of the world we know

Cause we know it’s the act of participation
That gives the world its how and why
So the big bang is just an illusion
It’s just the opening of the unseen eye

And the missing dark matter that binds the universe
The mysterious mass that science cannot find
Is in the many worlds of possibility
That are just around the corner in time

Now the universe of all universes
If the truth be known
Is an awful bore, viewed as a whole
But just a tiny shard viewed from any angle
Reveals complexity
It reveals such beauty, reveals a soul
So does it make a difference
How we got to what we see
If it’s really just coincidence
It’s still a wondrous thing

And we know it’s the act of observation
That gives the world its how and why
So the big bang is just an illusion
It’s just the opening of the unseen eye
And the unseen eye, is you and I
And the unseen eye, is you and I
And the unseen eye, is you and I

Let's recap where we are so far with these songs:
1. Everything Fits Together - at the quantum level information equals reality. Our universe is a pattern in that information, one of many other patterns within the multiverse. All of those patterns enfold back together into absolute zero of timelessness, which is the underlying fabric of quantum indeterminacy.
2. Seven Levels - As quantum physicist Seth Lloyd says in his book "Programming the Universe" - the big bang can be thought of as the very first binary yes/no in the information that becomes our reality. This song, The Unseen Dye, was written years before Dr. Lloyd's book was published, but it says the same thing.
3. Burn the Candle Brightly - "life" can also be thought of as a pattern in the information that is our reality. Any process that becomes interested in "what happens next" within the patterns of information that create our reality can develop strategies for its own continuation and propogation, which relates to the Richard Dawkins idea of Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes.
4. The Unseen Eye - which leads to the big question of the role of the quantum observer - is the universe observing itself? Are we each a part of that process, operating within our own observer-region? And is it possible, by the time we have imagined patterns in the information/reality of such exquisite complexity that they create you and I and the universe we live in, that it could all just be the result of random chance, tiny fluctuations in the underlying quantum fabric of indeterminacy? And if that's the case, is our world any less amazing, any less worthy of praise?

Here are some more of the blog entries that play with the cloud of ideas surrounding this song:
Thankful
The Multiverse and Dark Matter
Seeing Eye to Eye
Spirituality, Connections, and the Tenth Dimension


Many of the videos for my songs are also available at YouTube, if you search for videos by 10thdim. You can audition and buy a high-quality mp3 of this song (and others by Rob Bryanton) at amiestreet.com. Included at amiestreet are 6 channel "stems" of this song and some of the others for remixing and mashups (and you can click here to play with a six-channel mixer that lets you audition and play with those stems). There is also an instrumental track of this song (and others) available from amiestreet for karaoke purposes. Finally, you can also download this song and other items from the tenthdimension digital store, and the items at that store are released under a Creative Commons license.

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