Earlier today, I was reading an essay by Jayarava Attwood on a Buddhist concept and came across this line:

"Real and unreal are not qualities that can be imputed to experience."

I've been turning that over in my head ever since. I think there's something very important in that observation.

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As in the realization that all we have to go on is whatever our interface tells us. And sometimes that interface flat-out lies, like how it smooths out visual input by filling in missing parts on its own. I'd already known about that, but hadn't thought about it from the angle of having nothing fully reliable to rest on.

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