@Fred_Snerd One thing is the nature of ultimate reality, which is inexplicable and can not be known or described by the human mind.

@Fred_Snerd Ha, first time I’ve seen that clip. Now I’ll know where it came from when people say “42”.

It is well known and generally accepted that our everyday reality is no more than a work of imagination—an illusion. Behind the illusion is ultimate reality, but we can not detect or understand ultimate reality directly with our space/time/matter model. Physicists do dabble at it with their equations, and provide superficial explanations.

Through conscious awareness we experience something. We must surmise that there is some sort of foundation to reality and that it has something to do with awareness. Beyond that I am totally bewildered.

@Fred_Snerd The idea has been accepted by physicists for a very long time, at least back to the days of Maxwell. It is certainly reflected in the works of Einstein and in quantum physics.

A modern book on physics such as “”Reality is not What it Seems by Carlos Rovelli drives the point home. One of Rovelli’s chapters is entitled “Time Does Not Exist”. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman explains our illusion in great detail with his Conscious Realism.

@Fred_Snerd I don’t know the percentage. 51% of US scientists believe in God though.

Back to the original topic, science is not useful for many questions.