Do we make reality, or does it make us? Probe the existence of the universe's supposed building blocks - quarks, electrons, neutrinos and the rest - and you eventually end up back in your own mind. Alternatively, discount everything human and settle for "a world without us" - a reality that might also be unknowable by us (see page 36).These options are as viscerally unsettling as they are intellectually challenging.
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