What does it mean for one thing to be more real than another thing?
Also, when you say something is “map not territory”, what do you mean? That the thing in question does not exist, but it resembles something else which does exist? Presumably a map must at least resemble the territory it represents.
What do you mean by surface? Do you mean people exist as your perceptions but not otherwise? And is there anything ‘beneath’ this ‘surface’, whatever it is?
My own existence is more real than this universe. Humans and our objective reality are map, not territory.
What does it mean for one thing to be more real than another thing?
Also, when you say something is “map not territory”, what do you mean? That the thing in question does not exist, but it resembles something else which does exist? Presumably a map must at least resemble the territory it represents.
Maybe “more fundamental” is clearer. In the same way that friction is less real than electromagnetism.
More fundamental, in what sense? e.g. do you consider yourself to be the cause of other people?
To the extent that there is a cause, yes. Other people are a surface phenomenon.
What do you mean by surface? Do you mean people exist as your perceptions but not otherwise? And is there anything ‘beneath’ this ‘surface’, whatever it is?