Reality is not what it seems

The universe is made of consciousness

The idea that reality is fundamentally thought, consciousness, or an idea, as opposed to physical matter, atoms, or particles, is becoming more main stream. The many problems with scientific materialism are finally coming home to roost. But this does not mean reality just is how it appears to be in our own private consciousness of it, writes Bernardo Kastrup.

 

When we look around ourselves, we perceive a world of qualities: colours, melodies, textures, scents, and flavours. With the automatism of a reflex, we then take it for granted that these qualities are the world; that is, that the world out there, as it is in itself, is made of the colours, melodies, scents, and flavours that appear on the screen of our perception.

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Joseph Idowu OGUNYEMI 21 December 2022

Bernardo's viewpoint echoes Donald Hoffman's but Bernado seems to assume that the observer (the human) is separate from same influence by saying that the human senses creates the dashboard out of the actual reality out there.
Donald Hoffman's viewpoint involves all; that the human themself is subject to the same variables and so is just one item on the dashboard.
If we introduce Melvin Vopson's (University of Portsmouth, UK) idea into the mix, we may find that we are close to the actual reality out there from which the "dashboard" is created.

Kathy Barrera 29 November 2022

I think so