Is There a Real Reality?

I think that perhaps an easier way to understand why that seems to be the case is comparing ourselves perhaps to water animals. Like, for example, a bat where there's a collocation and that kind of thing. It does help to realize that other animals have different senses. But one could still hold on to space time and physical objects as the reality. They're just seeing a different aspect of that pre-existing reality. And so I'm saying that if you are thinking about it that way, you're not thinking big enough. The very notion of photons is part of the interface. Photons are not part of objective reality. As physicists would say, they're irreducible representations

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