One of the basic tenets of Modern Materialistic Science is that there is a real world, out there, separate from us. One that is studyable and its laws are fixed. A world, a real world, that everyone can agree is the same, because it is the same, for every viewer.
Well, if we actually query people about the world that they experience. Like, retelling an even that happened, everyone tells a (usually slightly) different story. So, how did we come to the conclusion that the world is real, and EVERYONE'S view of it is slightly wrong? (or way wrong)
It would have been just as valid to say that everyone's universe is just slightly different, and that it is the world, out there, that isn't quite solid.
Faulty memory or Faulty reality?
The act of turning signals, from the photoreceptors in your eyes, into an image with all kinds of meaning in your mind's eye is a very complex process. And we have barely gotten to the point where science is accepting that the person's emotions effect what they see.
Our previous experiences color what we see. It focuses our attention on certain things, and ignores other things. But, are they there, and we are just ignoring it, or are they missing from our personal reality?
And then there is the countless things that some people see, that other's do not. Auras is one well known example. Some people see auras around people, plants or animals, and others see nothing. So much so that these non-see'ers think that the ones who can see are insane / making things up. Fortunately, we are making progress with cameras to allow others to see what these aura seeing people could only see.
But there are many other things like angels, demons, fae, fairies, ghosts,… that some can see/sense, that others can't. What do we do with all of this?
A big fault of modern science, is that they ignore these things.
Is it really out there?
There is a thought that we live in a simulation. That we are like a brain in a jar, and we are just being shown this world as stimulations. In this way, we explain a lot of what quantum mechanics is seeing. Atoms aren't really there, unless we look. It is all potential, until we bring our focus onto it.
It could just be that we are imagine all of this. That, this is all a dream. A shared dream. With billions of your closest friends. Or maybe all of this is just your dream, and everyone is a figment of your imagination.
We really can't tell. And there is no proof that we exist.
One deep thinker came up with, "I think, therefore i am". Since he had thoughts, and those are the building blocks of reality, then he existed, because those thoughts existed. But, that does nothing as a proof for that person, over there, existing.
This could very well be a simulation, and we would never know. However, the simulation includes everything of reality, so we had better treat it as real, even if it is a simulation.
The scientific method relies on their being a world out there, separate from ourselves
There has to exist a world, and that world is real, and physical, and outside of ourselves. Thus, it is studyable, and fixed, and doesn't rely on you, and thus is not affected by you watching it.
If you watch an experiment, and you effect the experiment because you are watching it, than how do you study it?
We have enough evidence through the double slit experiments and randomness effecting experiments that we do have an effect on the world we are watching. And thus, we are going to have to work this into the Scientific Method 2.0.
In the future, we will have the people watching/performing the experiment write down their emotional state, and expected outcomes along with the experiment outcomes. And this will just be the start, as we will find that we can change the laws of physics. That the laws can be stretched, or skewed. You know, like how Sci-fi writers talk about being near a black hole.
And this really puts Modern Materialistic Science in a great quandary. And this is why they insist that the world is real, that it is people memories that are fallible, and ghosts don't exist. If any of these are questioned, even questionable, then the entire science falls apart.
Get ready for Modern Materialistic Science to fall apart. Ivory towers to crumble. For people to start coming up with stuff that makes quantum mechanics look stable and sane.
We will start defining ourselves as part of this world. Not something separate, or something that, if we didn't exist, that nature would carry on so much better without us. And it is this that will make a huge difference in our mental health.
You could call Modern Materialistic Science a separatist movement. They want/need us to feel separated from what we truly are. They need us to feel like we are destroying nature. If we don't, then how will all those "scientists" get govern-cement grants to study man-made-climate-change.
We are not some tiny rock on the edge of a little known galaxy as NASA would have us believe. We are all very important to this universe. Every single one of us in a monumental, interconnected, dance across the stars. The universe does not render things that are not important. If you were superfluous, you wouldn't exist.