Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
I wouldn't meet your perception of the dogs, right; I would meet my percpetion of them, because they are objects in the world that *I* experience, as I experience it. My mind is the cumulation of interpretations of shape, size, density, colour, number, distance, behaviors, predictions, relations, memory comparisons --all the values that are assigned by conscious awareness. Those interpretations come about via the faculty of imagination.
But, this seems to say that they are more than just a perception, whether it's yours or mine. That would mean that there would be a difference between a real God, if one existed and Stephen's perception of it. If I wasn't alive to experience my dogs, would they still exist?
I guess that last part is just another take on "If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, does it still make a sound?"