The symbiotic relation of the mind and the world

It may seem sometimes like we mean that the world doesn't exist and that it's all created by your mind. That's of course not what we mean (otherwise we wouldn't be writing a post about it). It's more like the mind and the world require each other to exist. The mind exists as a physical entity in the world and the world needs a notion of truth to be defined. Without the world the mind could not be and without the mind there would be no way of giving shape to the world, no notion of what is true and what is false. Our experience is the perception of the world through the eye of the mind, dividing it in what is real and what isn't, into cars and fish, emotions and reason, day and night. Neuroscientists like to think that they can reach the opposite point of view, to view the mind from the perspective of the world. But whichever experience you mean, both are always involved. This does not mean though, that you need humans for the world to exist. Any system which interacts with its surroundings is a mind.