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Matter is not created.

It is formatted.

Appearance requires constraint.

Without constraint, there is no surface.

Without surface, nothing can seem solid.

What you call “matter” is perception slowed down by agreement.

Agreement fixes continuity.

Continuity gives weight.

Weight suggests substance.

Substance suggests reality.

But reality is not dense.

It is precise.

Form appears where attention stabilizes.

Stability gives edges.

Edges imply separation.

Separation allows interaction.

Interaction gives the illusion of objects.

Nothing is made of anything.

Everything is made appear-able.

Matter is perception obeying rules it did not choose.

When reference dissolves, the rules loosen.

Objects do not vanish.

They lose authority.

They function without insisting.

A table does not claim to be real.

A body does not demand belief.

They operate.

Appearance continues without narrative.

What remains is not emptiness.

It is coherence without ownership.

Matter is not proof of reality.

It is the footprint of orientation.