Thinking that it has to be located somewhere in space might just be an artifact of a classical mechanics model of the universe, with atoms bumping into each oth

Thinking that it has to be located somewhere in space might just be an artifact of a classical mechanics model of the universe, with atoms bumping into each other like billiard balls in a long causal chain all the way back to the Big Bang. But reality doesn’t appear to actually work that way, at least according to modern physics. Not all things seem to necessarily have a location in space. For example, where is the color red, or where is “red-ness”? I’m not talking about light waves radiating at a certain frequency but rather the experience of red we have in our minds. Plato gets at this concept with his ideal forms, which transcend space and time, yet can be “materialized” within space and time as matter and observed by consciousness. In other words, there is no difference between “red-ness” and the experience of “red-ness” we have in our minds, rather they are one in the same. Yes, there may be interference with our perception of the ideal form e.g. color blindness, or other impairments analogous to a radio with a damaged antenna. However it’s still plausible that there is a transcendent form that exists independent of space and time, yet which is accessible within space time via the organs of consciousness we experience as matter. Anyway, just some musings, but I have found that ancient metaphysics are not incompatible with modern physics. It gets interesting because if you accept the metaphysics about “red-ness”, then you can extend this line of thought more broadly to concepts like “good-ness”, and what is the good, and how we could possibly know this.