This is a note on the topic of perceptible data in an environment that reaches a brain. In my opinion some environments are far more rich in data, quantitatively than others. Some environments are plain and simple- a square room painted white for example, empty and devoid of furniture, While other environments have far more complexity.
https://suno.com/s/e2UL7Vz32Ib0vCzl Existential Data Points in Nature (a song)
Wild forests are probably the most complex and data rich environments on Earth. Urban areas are probably the least complex. Humans have a history of reducing the complexity of their habitations to a non-stimulating level complete with regulated temperature.
A forest has a rich environment with billions of data points in branches, leaves, tree trunks, angles of trees, sunlight filtering and reflecting on branches, rain falling through a forest canopy, sounds temperatures hardness and softness variations etc. Urban areas have mostly standard variations on simplified, standard transportation facticities, level and uniform auto and pedestrian surfaces, ossified structural exteriors and interiors and so forth. People find an occasional flight of a bird of prey through an urban core to be a novel event, while in some rural areas someone may set a plate out for such a creature.
I wonder if scientists will eventual compare the complexity in data points of Hilbert space for a portion of wild coastal forests, southern tropical forests and various urban cores such as those of Cairo Egypt, Los Angeles and Chicago.
If they get that done and publish their results, and it might be interesting because humanity has for thousands of years moved into less complex environments they made for themselves for reasons of comfort seeking and economic prowess; they have made their intellectual life progressively more complex yet also somewhat common and standardized since the younger Dryas, and have lost the physiological challenges and stimulus to the body, brain and mind presented by the richly complex ecosphere of nature.
