I recently read the following quote from Dr. Fan Wang:
"... All perceptions are illusions, but just because it's in the head
doesn't mean it's not real. Everything's in the head."
And there it is: as succinctly put as possible. There is simultaneously an objective reality out there and our own experience of it, which is neither objective nor 'out there'. Therein lies the problem with all oversimplifications and the source of much confusion. Imagine the good that could come from wide-spread understanding of this simple truth.
(as an aside and a plug: this is why we need science: Reality can not be understood simply through your subjective, passive experience of it)
You know, this is not so much a dichotomy as it is an example of a Bohrian 'Profound Truth':
All we know is what is in our head: that is our reality. However, what is in our head is an illusion. Illusions are our experience of reality.
(Back to shadows on the wall and Plato, anyone? Neuroscience brings us full circle!)
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