People Imagine Reality To Be What They Think About Most

[Ninja_pig]

People's explanation for the origin of reality usually falls under into the category of the domain they spend the most time think about and studying.

A physicist will tend to believe that reality is physical: a spacetime manifold plus quantum field with SU(3) X SU(2) X U(1) symmetry.

Niel De Gras Tyson often likes to say "you and everything you know of is stardust". He is an astrophysicist. What do astrophysicists spend all their time studying?

Elon Musk says that reality is a simulation. He is a coding wizard and a talented engineer. He likes to say "the probability that we are base reality and not one of many nested simulations is exceedingly small". That sounds like engineer speak if I've ever heard it.

You often hear neuroscientist say that reality is a controlled hallucination created by our brains. They spend all their time studying our brains and their phenomena.

Leo says that the universe is a mind, and reality is consciousness. Guess what topics he has dedicated his life to studying?

I have talked to mathematicians who will claim that the universe is "literally math".

I'm not saying that any of these people are wrong per say, just making this meta point on theories of everything that people tend to have.

This is related to my other recent article"Why Reality is Imagination".