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Examining 'The Witness': Jungle of Sound, and the purpose of Environmental Puzzles

I'm terrible at The Witness's sound puzzles, but we're doing them anyways! More importantly, I also use this episode to lay out my interpretation of what the "environmental puzzles" represent, and why they are in the game. (Expand video description for timestamped highlights.) 4:50 -- In-depth discussion of one of the most beautiful environmental puzzles on the island, plus the two nearby audio logs that comment on it, at 7:50 and 26:27 14:48 -- Describing the sense of meditative self-awareness that I claim the environmental puzzles are meant to symbolize, using a metaphor from Rupert Spira himself that you can watch here:    • Why am I Not Enlightened Yet?   18:16 -- Describing the specific details of the environmental-puzzle mechanic and how they support the connection to mindful first-person experience. I mention a short, free, absolutlely joyful and suprising puzzle game called Perspective, which shares The Witness's "freeze-frame" mechanic. You can (and should!) download it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/11... 38:10 -- Why would sound-based puzzles be particularly aligned with the idea of mindful self-awareness? Sound as a sense has unique qualities that set it apart from vision and make it uniquely suited for open, wide-field awareness. 50:49 -- A great sequence of three very clever panels at the end of the sound area, which I appreciate even despite my general frustration at the sound puzzles. 59:38 A second environmental puzzle constrains the 3D shape of the gigantic jungle tree like the wooden blocks on the cover of 'Godel, Escher, Bach': https://www.thebookmerchantjenkins.co... 1:04:48 -- Analyzing the meaning of the bamboo labyrinth and the creepy braided-bamboo statue. The presence of an auditory illusion works as both a classic last-minute puzzle curveball, and as a reminder that we never directly experience the external world, only sense-perceptions mediated by the brain. NOTE: I also jokingly claim this is a Braid reference (it is a literal braid after all), but fail to explain why a braid is connected to the Shepard tones. It's because the illusion relies on three different sounds playing at once, each cleverly fading into the next! For a demonstration, watch this short video:    • The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so i...   1:13:00 -- Why is a Feynman quote we already heard in the Theater video showing up again at the conclusion of the sound area? The Witness is telling us that Feynman's philosophy of doubt applies to spirituality and our own direct experience of reality, just as much as it applies to scientific inquiry.