Perceiver

For Whitehead, the term "prehension" indicates that the perceiver actually incorporates aspects of the perceived thing into itself.

However, the original form was indeed Avalokitasvara with the ending svara ("sound, noise"), which means "sound perceiver", literally "he who looks down upon sound" (i.

Perceptual issues in philosophy include the extent to which sensory qualities such as sound, smell or color exist in objective reality rather than in the mind of the perceiver.

Subjective idealism main Subjective Idealism ( immaterialism or phenomenalism ) describes a relationship between experience and the world in which objects are no more than collections or "bundles" of sense data in the perceiver.

The notion of objects as real is not expelled by phenomenology, but "bracketed" as a way in which we regard objects—instead of a feature that inheres in an object's essence founded in the relation between the object and the perceiver.

This results in the subjective discretion between sound and noise, where any sound may be considered noise depending on the perceiver.