Bill, I'm sorry I have the subtlety of a kidney stone, but reality is far outside the intuitive box of the human mind. There is little that our perspective of physics can prove on an absolute level. We then dress up our so-called facts in philosophy. Our neural net evolved as a function of our universe for our self-preservation, which sort of goes against entropy and against the grain of spacetime. Reality is still shown to us like shadows on the cave wall. Quantum reality took about 10,000 years after we began using symbolic language. What might we learn in the next 10,000 years?
Consciousness may be the greater reality of physics that we have thus far ignored.