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Given that everything is made of atoms, do objects exist independently of our minds?

Something I really don't understand is in what sense anything actually exists  apart from our minds, given that everything is composed of tiny constituent parts. 

Take an ordinary object, like a chair. I say that I have a chair because there is some arrangement of atoms that allows me to rest upon it. But how does a chair exist independently of our subjective assignment of function to some arrangement of atoms? And if we were to take atoms away from a chair one by one, does a chair "go out of existence" at some point? One might say that there is no longer a chair when it doesn't perform the function or resemblance of a chair at some point, but once again, this is just our subjective assignment, right? So does a chair itself \*actually\* exist independent of our subjective assignments?

And this seems like it extends to literally everything, apart from the constituent objects themselves. So in what sense is anything real? Can anyone shed light on this? 

It just doesn't make sense to me how objects themselves actually exist, apart from our subjective assignments, given that everything is just composed of smaller parts, and things inexplicably would go in and out of existence when we add or subtract atoms. 

Thank you.
gpt
In the same way that those atoms exist independently of your mind? Like sure, the collection of the atoms arranged chair wise wouldn’t be called a chair without a community of minds that refer to such collections of atoms orientated in the way they are “chairs”, but chairs existing is a different thing from us *calling* them chairs. 

Yeah if you removed enough atoms from a chair it would fall apart and cease being a chair.