“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 awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have 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.”
![“That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, it is not [ultimately] perceived.” quote by Shantideva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/56c/shantideva-10592_arise_that-which-is-seen-and-that-which-is-tou_912906.jpg)
