Immanuel Kant, in the eighteenth century, said that the universe as it truly is must be unknowable, and all we ever know is the world through our senses: he made a clear distinction between phenomena , our perceptions of objects, and noumena , the things in themselves.5 More than that, he foreshadowed the Bayesian model of the brain: he argued that

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The entanglement of mass and space-time creates what we think of as objective reality. The entanglement of narratives and archetypes (or stories and minds) creates what we think of as subjective reality. ... a kind of reality that exists between the other two, bridging them? Something we can call computational reality? Perhaps modern AI is allowing... See more

My current view is that we’ve discovered a kind of natural universal memory phenomenon that’s a property of all matter, living and non-living. A natural tendency of information to get tangled up with space, time, and matter that allows it to become experientially self-reporting. It’s weird to think of memory outside of the context of living beings... See more