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Alan Moore

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

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Alan Moore is saying that everything we know about the universe comes through our mind, meaning we only know what we perceive, not the universe itself. This means our reality is shaped entirely by how our consciousness interprets what we sense.

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