RestlessSoul
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"We" do. Our brains receive all of the information generated by our senses. However, the conscious process which most people only identify as, only receives an interpretation of this direct information.
For example colors don't actually exist. They are an interpretation of a small spectrum of wave energy.
Two problems recent science identifies with the existence of an objective reality external to the observer, are as follows;
General Relativity tells us that facts about time and space are not absolute; they depend always upon a frame of reference, which is unique to each observer. And;
Quantum Mechanics tells us that neutral observation of a system behaving as it would do were the observer not there observing it, is not possible. The act of observing a system is in itself an interaction, impacting on the behaviour of said system; distinctions between the object, the observer and the act of observation are arbitrary.
This separation of human experience into external reality and internal perceptions is illusory and misleading. We are not outside the world observing it objectively, we are within it looking out; while it is simultaneously within us, informing our experience.