We perceive the world within ourselves. Our five senses receive some external stimulus and pass it to the brain, where it is processed forming our picture of the world, and we perceive nothing outside this picture. The world “we know” is our reactions to external impacts. The world “in itself” is unknown. For instance, if my eardrum is damaged, I hear nothing and sound doesn’t exist for me. I perceive only within the range to which I am attuned.

Our perception of the world is completely subjective; it says nothing about what happens outside us. We grasp our own reactions to something supposedly unfolding outside us, but does anything really happen out there?

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