"Esse est percipi, to be is to be……" — Unknown Author

"Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awarenesspains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the likehave any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world."

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