Buddhist idea that everything is just actually a stream. We try to take something which is this holistic ocean of consciousness and we try to divide it up into discrete parts. That's our mind doing that, but the reality is more that it is just a stream. Either way, either way, not more accurate than somebody else who for other contingent reasons divides up the world differently. And I think that the distance between one mind and another when you don't even know if their mind is constructing the world in the same way that yours is are vast.

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