https://medium.com/@organelle/the-myth-of-reality-b1a95a854478

“Reality” is a verbal concept. By which I mean a myth. A fiction. A story we tell each other, and perhaps ourselves, for a vast variety of ‘reasons’. And reasons are another kind of myth; an explanatory one. Our purposes in attending something determine the outcomes of our reflection… in ways we must examine carefully to acquire understanding of.

Although we may employ explanations in games of cause and effect, anyone capable of careful thought is aware that the scope of these activities is far too limited to be projected onto ‘everything at once’. After all, we don’t know what the universe is, what a world is, or even what the mind with which we may pursue such questions ‘is’. And we cannot see into time…”