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>>11848893
there were never "rocks" to begin with anon, just impressions of rocks created from reflected photons impacting your rods and cones and being translated into an impression in your brain - all you've ever had access to is the impression, and it is cognition, thinking, coupled with sensation that will influence the way your brain processes that information (where it is, what "that color" is, if it's moving or not, how the impressions are changing, etc).
>So if I kill everyone, the rocks dissapear?
If all ways of representing something are destroyed, then there is no sense in which the rocks "exist"; existence necessitates a subject to exist for, something to contrast and to bring it to light.
>>11848895
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism/supplement1.html