The Unobserved Room: Object Permanence and the Myth of a Passive World
Every age uses the tools of its time to describe the indescribable. Two thousand years ago, sages used the metaphors of clay and potters, of gold and jewelry, of oceans and waves to explain the nature of reality. They spoke in the language of craftsmanship and nature because that was the technology of their day.
Today, we live in an age of silicon, software, and simulation. We understand the world through screens, servers, and data streams. So for this inquiry, we swap the potter’s wheel for the game engine.
This book is an experiment in translation. It takes the perennial understanding that the world is a projection within the mind and maps it onto the architecture of modern computing.
You do not need to be a programmer or a gamer to follow the thread. You only need to be willing to entertain the radical possibility that the apparently solid world is not a fixed space we inhabit but rather a fluid and stable appearance within awareness.