I adopt the theory that all consciousness is energy vibrating the strings of the quarks that make up the atoms of the universe that make up humans that study the workings of the universe and thus, ourselves.
Yes but due to its density, it takes millions of years to form a sentence. If you listen closely to trees, they also speak with one another. Mountains do too. We just have the attention span of a gnat.
I’m sure at some cosmic level there’s cities of marbles like ours just humming away.
A chorus of being.