You look at a tree. Science describes photons, neurons, signals — a chain of processes. You describe green leaves, rough bark, presence — a lived experience. Two descriptions.One reality? Traditional thinking splits them: - Ontology: what exists (the objective chain) - Epistemology: what is known (the experience) But what if this split is artificial? What if experience is not a representation of reality, but reality appearing in a particular way? We call this manifestation: Manifestation is the process by which reality takes form as a coherent appearance from within a perspective. Not a copy. Not an illusion. A mode of appearance with structure and consistency.Dissolve the split, and the problem changes completely.
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