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Near the end of the Advanced Theory, I provided the reader with a few visualization exercises. From these, the reader should have gotten a sense that whatever was inside the bubble represented everything within our subjective reality, and everything outside represented everything transcendent to our subjective reality (that is, everything else in the Universal Mind). A shortcoming of this visualization exercise is that it leaves the impression that these transcendental experiences (or real things) are somehow localizable "outside" our phenomenal universe. But does it make sense to give them a place? Can something that is transcendent to the infinit extents of space itself have a place? Yet we know that they can't be in space either - only physical objects occupy space. So where are they?
The whole question of "where" they are is, of course, misguided, and to help with understanding how, let me offer the following analysis. They are unlocalizable in the same way that our emotions are unlocalizable. Emotions don't take up a place anywhere in space. Their material representations do - namely, neural and chemical activity - and they take place in the brain, but not the things represented, not the emotions themselves. But even though they don't take up a place in space, neither do they take a place "outside" space in some transcendental extension to our universe. They are, to put it one way, immanent but placeless.
This is precisely the way we should think of all experiences and real things beyond our subjective realities. They are not "outside" the sensible universe; they simply have no place. Nonetheless, they do function, or can function, as the reasons for the events and phenomena in our subjective realities. The only difference between them and our emotions is that we are epistemically aware of our emotions whereas we are not of these transcendental things. But this makes no difference to their locality - they are still "in the midst" of our emotions and all our other experiences.
This applies to other people's subjective realities as well. Other subjective realities are not "outside" one's own, but placeless instead. This is not an unsound thing to say. Although human subjective realities are the basis for which there can be places and things occupying places, they do not have places themselves; there is no greater spatial medium in which subjective realities float around. Thus, they are all placeless. They exist relative to each other in much the same way as emotions exist relative to other things (whether they are placed or placeless).
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