« Sensory Zeroes »

The inner - the Subjective - side of what we are is not given to the senses.  We can translate what we think and what we feel and what we sense into sounds and images and gestures.  But the description of the experience is not the original experience itself.

Thus, we - the Experiencers, the Knowers - are fundamentally cut off.

We are beyond being known.  Beyond sensory experience.  We are invisible, inaudible, and impalpable.  We are abstractions.  No, not to ourselves.  To ourselves, we are as real as it gets.  But to others we are abstractions.  For others we exists through such ideas and constructs as "he" or "she," "psyche" or "soul," "mind" or "brain."  We are assumed and hypothesized and projected to exist.  Our bodies can be caressed or hit, our houses can be visited or burglarized.  But we - the inner side of our objective presence - are just a speculation.

In short, we are sensory zeroes.  "Monads," Leibniz would say.