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(for the post on June 30)

Yet we ought to remind ourselves that the contrariwise appearance of separate things is just that: an appearance. The things in themselves are never opposed, but at all times unified into a single system, together with the perceptual apparatus, in such a way as to produce these experiential effects. That is to say, the perceived contrast between one thing and another is entirely an artifact of the cognitive process. 

The boundary between distinct entities being itself a product of neural activity, it isn't merely phenomena like color and temperature that would ultimately fail to inhere in objects. It cannot be the case that only these are internal projections of other "things" like wavelength or the statistical average of molecular motion, but nothing else is besides. Surely the persistence of objects in and of themselves as extant "items" must likewise be called into question! The totality of any thing, then, including the concept, idea or symbol of that thing, is chiefly an inhabitant of the cognitive domain.

Thus, "everything", taken at face value, is, strictly speaking, nothing at all. The world is quite literally brought into being by its inhabitants.