Winquist argued that concerns about beginnings and endings were "fictive productions of heuristic strategies," stating that being in the middle of experience should not be resisted. When people put themselves (or find themselves) in another person's experience, and empathize with, or "simulate" their perspectives and surrounding world, it coincides with their own, even though other factors in which "the other" represents his or her world must be different. Objects exist independently, despite the knot of perceptual subjectivity of the experience itself.