Each Consciousness Perceives a Unique Reality

Each consciousness is condemned to experience not the world, but a model of it; shaped, distorted, and narrowed by its own faculties. Sensation is not reception; it is reconstruction. The world as it is remains forever outside our grasp, veiled behind the imperfect apparatus through which we apprehend it.

These conduits of perception – these modellers of reality – being products of genetics and experience are necessarily unique to each consciousness. No two minds share the same inheritance, nor the same path through time. Even identical twins cannot occupy the same position in space.

It follows therefore that every individual exists within a reality that is singular to itself. There are as many universes as there are consciousnesses. These realities may overlap (indeed if they did not, communication would be impossible) but they can never merge completely. Each stands alone, a private theatre of interpretation, bounded by the structure of the self. There is no objective standpoint, no common lens. There are only approximations, each irreducibly its own.