Fiction: Object Impermanence
Photo Source: Pexels Let me start by asking you all this: How do you know the world still exists when you’re not looking? We assume it does, because existence is solid. Objective permanence is one of the earliest understandings we develop as babies. The crux that the surprise of peekaboo hangs on. Things either exist -- the table, the coffee pot, the trees outside the window -- or they don’t. I used to think like that too. Until the day I woke up and the world outside my...