With regards to objective reality (one which is identical irrespective of what perspective you look at it)
If objects are not reflexive, then there are no “things” in objective reality.
Because any “specific thing” (ie something which is reflexive from one point to another) changes at any two points in time.
If that’s true, then the objective universe has no set entities, at all.
It “is” entirely and totally made up of currents of forces, pressure, time and so on.
So you’re glass of water in front of you, would evaporate without the pressure and gravity keeping it there. That pressure is part of what it “is”.
So even if you’re glass of water were to move one inch or centimetre, it wouldn’t be the “same” glass of water.
It only “is” for two reasons :
1. you define the limits of the form that you perceive and assign a reflexive abstract symbol to it (a name).
2. anything that “is” something (which you perceive as being something) is only a form which you distinguish from your perspective, even if it’s a conceptual representation of that object in your imagination.
In “reality”, there “is” nothing specific at all, not in the way you imagine it, not in a “reflexive” way, not in a way that would remain identical if one influence of what “makes” reality or another were to change; such as temperature, pressure, gravity, and so on.
It’s only the shadow you see, the form of a hill without seeing the earth that makes it and the other forces that hold it together and “make” that shape which you think is constant.
If you zoom in or if you zoom out, that becomes “apparently true”.
Indeed, there is no spoon. Not in the sense you think there is.
Just as there is no “ocean” because at any two points in time, that ocean is not identical, for a start, it’s always evolving.
Unless of course, when you describe something and how it is (like : the ocean), that description includes this none reflexive concept, which, as far as I can tell, applies to everything.
as soon as time passes, any “defined” object changes.
Which means that unless we define that object in a way that integrates that change, our definitions are wrong.
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