there’s no such thing as a shared world. not really. there are people. and there are their thoughts. and the thoughts generate meaning. the meaning generates emotion. and all of that creates reality, but only for the person inside it.

every human is living inside a full feedback loop of perception, association, memory, and belief. what you call the world is just what that loop reflects back to you. and it’s different for everyone. you stand in the same room as someone else and exist in two entirely different universes. but in a sense you are the same, just from different angles. different costumes.

some ways of knowing never needed a hard line between mind and body, self and world, observer and observed. you don’t have to draw a hard line between experience and experiencer. they knew it was all one movement. one being. you’re not observing the world. you are the world, seeing itself from a particular angle.

it’s not philosophy. it’s not a theory. it’s just what’s happening. there’s no objectivity. only the dreamer and what they dream up. and you don’t have to like that. but you’re still doing it.