Everything is down to perception. Imagine you are standing at the side of a pond: you’re looking at the water and, of course, you would call that a pond. But is it really a pond? What if you were a fish inside that water? A fish swimming in the water would perceive that pond as the air that it breathes, and in fact that fish has no concept of anything outside—it’s actually its entire universe. Who is “right?” What if the fish and the human could hold a conversation? The human would say, “It’s a pond,” and the fish would say, “No, stupid, it’s the whole world.” Are we not just living in
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