Malik- So you don't believe in convenience? Guess cars and cellphones don't really exist
Tesla- The problem with that theory, and really most people's perception is that it assumes we know everything or nearly everything about how we work and how the universe works when nothing could be farther from the truth.
Energy, matter, space, time, etc. all have underlying mathematical equations. Math is like the language of the gods. It can describe everything in a precise matter. We may not know the entirety of the language or have all the translations down but from all our experience we know it exists.
Now, taking that into consideration complex beings are like information. Our biological information is recorded through genetics, our experience through neuron pathways and connections. That said, when you erase that information does it really go away? Are you destroying it? If we erase an equation, does that suddenly render it inert? Of course not, it goes on being true whether we know about or have it written down or not.
We may not be able to understand how information exists without perception, but that doesn't mean it doesn't go right on existing.