This thought is killing me mentally, someone weigh in with a high IQ response

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Secondly, You’re mistakenly conflating reductionism with illusion. Saying, “wow, I thought that thing over there was an elephant, but it’s actually just a collection of quarks!” is a misunderstanding of language.

That's a dumb exaggeration of what I was trying say. And those "collection of quarks" make up an elephant, duh. 

Trying to visualize nothingness I feel like is extremely similar to trying to visualize what the elements look like "raw" in a sense. 

If you’re operating empirically, the claim that sensory experiences are “100% an illusion” is nonsensical, seeing as it would require you to have empirical knowledge of the existence of a non-illusionary reality, which would be impossible.

 I've been served. Last part makes alot of sense ngl.