Esse est percipi

To be is to be perceived
George Berkeley, Irish Anglican bishop and philosopher (1685-1753)
Interpretations
Berkeley's radical idealism challenges our most basic assumptions about reality. If existence depends on perception, whose perception matters? His answer - God's eternal perception ensures the world's continuity. Modern interpretations see this as prescient of simulation theories and questions of consciousness in AI. The paradox remains: can anything exist totally unperceived, even theoretically?

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