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If we take Russell’s view seriously, then reality isn’t “made of” matter at all, but of mind—a universal substance that precedes and sustains the physical. What we call “physical reality” is just the visible half of a wave cycle, the part of mind’s vibration that becomes perceptible to our senses.

The question of who is observing it is interesting, because if mind is the substance of all, then every observer is also the observed. What you see when you perceive me is still made of the same mind-stuff as what I call “myself.” The distinction between observer and observed is convenient but ultimately artificial.

As for whether you can “see what they are seeing” — in a limited sense, yes, through empathy, resonance, or shared perspective. But Russell would probably argue that at a deeper level, perception is a rhythmic interchange within the one universal field, so all seeing is ultimately the same seeing, just expressed through different wave-fields.

And the last point you raised is powerful: maybe they see you in some sense they are unable to consciously perceive. That’s very close to Russell’s notion of the unseen half of the wave—that half of reality is invisible to us at any moment, yet it is just as real and necessary to the cycle of being. Our senses tune in to only one octave of the infinite spectrum of perception.

So perhaps the “real” answer is: reality is made of mind, expressed as motion; we are both observer and observed; and perception is always partial, yet interconnected across a field far larger than what our eyes or brains can grasp.