Though they say "justice is blind" not to mix metaphors, brings us to the ultimate question would there even be life on this planet without light? No, probably impossible or at least not complex sentient life, perhaps only extremophilic life.
But then again, you wouldn't get far without a stomach, heart, lungs (& legs/arms) either, which is saying quite a mouthful given the vastly important functions these organs perform, the crucial elements & energy they provide. You are a composite of these organs, they virtually rule everything that you do, so very much "yes", it is a material world that travels always on its stomach by eating, lungs for breathing & heart for pumping.
*One of the chief features of our own society, we are an extremely visually oriented culture, but that would stem from a general tendency for humans to derive & process over 90% of their experience from the sense of sight alone.
Medieval Cathedrals were admired for their heavenly height but also for their "light". |
