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As Berkeley, the archenemy of materialism, phrased it, “All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any substance without the mind .... So long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind, or that of any other created spirit, they must have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit."
Einstein carried this train of logic to its ultimate limits by showing that even space and time are forms of intuition, which can no more be divorced from consciousness than can our concepts of colour, shape, size etc. Space has no objective reality except as an order or arrangement of the objects we perceive in it, and time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. 52
Thus even gross perception of our body is also mindbased. In fact, it is merely a compilation and interpretation by our mind of innumerable bits of information of data-input transmitted through our sensory apparatus.
A common example of how our senses can create an illusion due to their limitations is the movie or the motion picture. The spectators watching the movie in a cinema theater do not see the screen. The film-reel that moves across the light-beam from the projector,creates an illusion of movement due to fast-moving images on the screen. Due to these superimposed fast-moving images, the screen - which is very much existent in reality - remains unnoticed to the viewers. The pictures on the film reel are also quite static, yet due to their rapid projection, an impression of mobile - live - world of motion picture is presented to the viewers, and due to their deep absorption with it, they fail to notice the backdrop formed
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