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. The connection between the experience of green and the wave frequency of green is arbitrary (although consistent). Nothing about the wavelength itself explains why it should feel green rather than some other color. Think about it. Change in matter is converted into experience; a wavelength changes molecules in your retina, and somehow this becomes the experience of green.
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:
