Monday 1 October 2007

Where are objects?

Where is the man in this image?

• Objects as such do not exist. That is, what we take to be discrete, localised objects actually extend indefinitely (both macro- and microscopically) in time and space. Objects are boundless (and largely empty).

• The boundaries (and qualities) we perceive in the world are products of our mental processing. In other words, they are not mind independent.

• Yet the mind is also a product and constituent of that same boundless environment. The physical mind is itself unbounded (being an object in the world) whilst at the same time being the generator of perceptual boundaries (which are no more substantial in the mind that they are in the world).