Look at the looker
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You always look, but have you looked at what is looking?
If you really wanna investigate the world, you have to look at your own eyes, which is kinda like simulating yourself, but not exactly. I am not sure...
In a truly unbiased investigation, one eye is on the information _from_ experience, and the other is on the information _of_ experience. One eye on the data, another on the simulating tool that is mediating this data.
You have never looked at the real world. You only perceive through your mind, converting inside changes in your body, originating from "outside" signals, into something completely different in quality and essence; You experience green because photons change molecules in your retina, but neither the photons nor their wavelengths are green or red; they have no color. The forest is silent, yet human language constantly describes the world around us in terms of experience. This is deceptive. The room is never orange. It is orange to you and green to a deer.
The connection between the experience of green and the frequency of light associated with it appears arbitrary, although it is consistent. Nothing about the frequency itself explains why it should feel green rather than like some other color. Think about it: changes in matter is reflected in experience.
So how shall we view the world outside? it is colorless and silent. It contains wavelengths and subatomic particles, but color, sound, smell, taste, and touch arise only when particle motion is converted into experience. The outside experience world is not beautiful or full of sound.
The forest is silent, whether a tree falls or not, whether someone hears it or not.
This video explains it very well:
Great confusion arises out of this phenomenon, as I tried to explain in this 5 minutes talk about human language describing subjective experiences as objective realities:
