The Self-Reflecting Mirror
Well, if it is, then what isn't it? We observe that in order to make some sense of reality as an object, we must separate out from that reality a subject, if for no other reason than to give ourselves perspective.
Imagine, if you will, two mirrors lying face-to-face. When there's no space between them, there's nothing to reflect on. Distance and separation become the basic building blocks of reality.
The inverse corollary is that as distances vanish and separations come together, reality winks itself out of existence. The object and subject become close, until there's nothing that lies between them, and then they merge, cancelling each other out as they fuse together.
You, as you exist right now, with all your perceptions, are defined by these distances, by these separations. The whole of your perception of reality is all the "stuff" that's gotten between those two mirrors.
Where the nature of reality really departs from our metaphor of "two mirrors" is that in reality, there's only one mirror; it gets separated from itself. It's self-separation is not, however, perfectly even. Imperfections, variations, and asymmetries introduce distortions in the reflection. It is precisely these distortions which, after an endless recursive back-and-forth, become the very objects that appear in the mirrors. They are given substance by the apparent stability of the end result of this recursive process.
