A philosopher argued the split between you and the world you see isn't actually basic

Nishida Kitaro, founder of Japan's Kyoto School, argued that 'pure experience', a moment of perception before you've separated it into a perceiving self and a perceived object, is more fundamental than either the self or the world it supposedly divides into. Subject and object, on his account, are both derived afterward from this seamless original experience. He drew on William James's radical empiricism while trying to bridge Western philosophy with Zen Buddhist thought.

— Nishida Kitaro, An Inquiry into the Good — 1911
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