Published in Short. Sweet. Valuable.
Nov 21, 2023 (Medium.com)
The belief that we are individual entities walking around in an objective world that more or less is like our perception of it is arguably the most common belief.
Yes, the existence of an objective world is a belief and one that we can disprove.
Every concept is based on experience.
The concept of an objective world is based on your subjective experience of the world.
All you ever experience are sensations.
From your first-person perspective the world is made up of sensations, not of atoms or other subatomic particles.
There are only first-person perspectives.
The trifecta of perceiver, perceiving, and perceived is conceptual.
There is no line of separation between them.
Seer, seeing, and seen are the same function.
Everything seen is color.
The presence of color is what we mean by seeing. Therefore, seeing and color are the same.
There are no objects. There is only color which is the same as seeing.
For an objective world to exist, there must be an independent space. But space is only a concept.
The experience of space is seeing and feeling.
You don’t see space. Space is the extension of color, not the container. Space as a feeling is sensations, which is the same as feeling. Feeling = Felt.
Space is an aspect of experience, not of the world.
Every aspect of the world is really an aspect of experience.
Saying an objective world exists is like saying an experience without experience exists.
An objective world is like a square circle — a logical and experiential impossibility.
Experience and the world are dependently co-arising. They are the same.
An objective world cannot be like your experience of it because it is by definition not experienced.
Although it’s considered common sense, the objective world is a fairytale.
Written by Luka Bönisch
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