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[Newest Reality]

3. Yes...

Well, that's been my causal bag for a long time now, but it isn't new. Only the modality of describing it seems to change over time.

Maya, illusion, etc. A network of conscious agents? We experience what we call reality via a nervous system that is primed or tuned to give us information about the survival or the organism primarily. Just as with our biases, (which are such because they tend to be transparent and we are unaware of them) filter how we experience social and other phenomena, our anthropocentric understanding of what is might merely work the same way and provide us with what has worked before, but not necessarily reality. If fact, it could be avoiding it.

Our overall, species-wide assumptions are in question here, as well as the nature of consensus reality, (which is all it might be for us currently).

I like Prof. Donald Hoffman's theory. It is deliciously radical, yet adheres to the scientific method. His book is: The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. There are several videos where he describes his view in detail on YouTube.

Here is a short talk that gives a general idea of it: