Experience is the only place where the self and others appear. “Experience” is another word for the way in which things appear. They appear in certain ways that are regulated by our senses of sight, hearing, smell, etc. Because we experience nothing outside of our own experience, experience is a pretty totalizing concept, isn’t it? Do we really need to call it anything? It’s like when you ask someone, “How’s life?” and they say, “Compared to what?” It’s like a fish trying to describe water, isn’t it?
