Value and Value-Judgments
Value is a word indicating a relationship.
The relationship is between an observer and the observed, therefore it only has meaning in relation to living organisms within world.
In it most basic form it is an organism evaluating an otherness in relation to its needs.
Humans, having the ability to go beyond the third level of cognition, can evaluate a behavior, a choice, in relation to a projected objective, an abstract ideal.
In other words he can extricate his own needs from the process and compare an action to an ideal.
This ability can produce the value represented by money, or the value of numerical measurements representing the phenomenon’s activity measure against an abstract, immutable standard.
This is how we can measure temperature, or speed.
Value only has meaning in relation to a motive, a goal, an objective.
Value is not an intrinsic part of a pattern.
A phenomenon lacks value, but only in relation to a motive, such as measuring its activity, its energy, relative to the observer, or some standardized abstraction.
A stone has no value. It is pattern, or a congruity of patterns that may be measured by an external consciousness that first differentiates it from the background, from its pile of stones it is among.
A stone is given value either in relationship to this standard, ideal, usually mathematical, or in relation to a goal, such as building a house.
Similarly, a stone has no name unless there’s a consciousness present to give it a standardized noetic model, such as language a symbol, a word associated with its pattern.
Stone, the term, is not a intrinsic aspect of its existence.
Similarly speed-of-light has a speed.
The value we give to this activity we call velocity, which is nothing more than its pattern, is based on human standards, which are, in turn, founded on human metabolic rates.
It can be 299792458 metres per second or it can be 186,282 mi/s.
The numbers are not an intrinsic part of light. The value they represent is a representation of its behavior, its pattern (inter)acting. In this case in a vacuum where interaction is minimal to the point of being inconsequential relative to human lifespans, and speeds of awareness.
The type of pattern determines its (inter)activity, therefore it determines how an organism such as man using light as a medium will perceive - interpret the phenomenon.
if the medium is not light, not visual, but acoustic then it is how atmosphere, the patterns we know as gases, (inter)act with a given phenomenon, and then the eardrum.
We give sound value according to this interpretation of (inter)activity, based on our organic limitations. We give it a tonal value, we interpret it as noise or as ordered noise we call melody, or music.
Sound is vibration which is another way of saying pattern.
Light is also vibration, energy - the fastest pattern man can process, making it a metaphor for human awareness, the extent of man’s perceptual-event-horizon.
Sound has no value in and of itself. It is given value, either as a way of categorizing it, or in relation to the organisms needs. A particular sound may mean dinner, or a coming threat.
Sound is simply patterns (inter)acting.
Man gives sound value in order to categorize it, to know it and then to understand it.
Sound resonates, in other words it (inter)acts via the medium of atmosphere with an organism.
It has a psychosomatic effect.