How did Berkeley explain the continuity of the world when people are not perceiving it?

In the context of Modern philosophy, George Berkeley addressed the continuity of the physical world by arguing that objects do not cease to exist when they are not perceived by humans. While his doctrine of esse est percipi ("to be is to be perceived") posits that physical objects are collections of ideas that exist only in a mind, he maintained that this does not imply an intermittent existence for the world.12

Berkeley’s primary explanation for this continuity is that God is an eternal perceiver. Even when no human is observing an object, it continues to exist because it is being perceived by the mind of God. This perspective aligns with a long-standing tradition among Christian philosophers who held that God sustains the universe by continuously thinking of all things. Furthermore, Berkeley emphasized that objects remain "perceivable" and maintain their relation to perception, asserting that his philosophy was intended to support, rather than contradict, the commonsense view that the world persists when we turn our attention away.12