As a universe, that is. The late Stephen Hawkings final contribution to helping understanding reality:
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Iâm of the belief that consciousness itself is the super-set of the physical realities. I donât think I am alone in this idea.
Physicist Tom Campbell has some interesting ideas along this line.
https://www.my-big-toe.com/ (My Big Theory of Everything)
As well as IONs (Institute of Noetic Sciences)
An interesting talk about the Taboos of Science
Scientific Evidence
http://www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm
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Until this becomes a falsifiable hypothesis I will leave these types of questions in the realm of philosophy. Specifically in the capable minds and writings of Descartes and Nietzsche who collectively make the argument that if whole of reality is an illusion we would be incapable of telling the difference and what is more the difference is not even relevant to the human condition.
Also read Neal Stephensonâs Anathem for some excellent pop philosophy on the subject of consciousness effect on reality and vice versa.
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+1 for NSâs Anathem, and most of his other books as well. And, coincidentally, Anathem also deals with surprise visitors from another universe.
I will give it a read ⊠but as far as other beings and visitation âŠ
That is a perfectly fine thing to do. I will leave you with a few quotes âŠ
âTo meet the challenge before us our notions of cosmology and of the general nature of reality must have room in them to permit a consistent account of consciousness. Vice-versa, our notions of consciousness must have room in them to understand what it means for its content to be âreality as a whole.â The two sets of notions together should then be such as to allow for an understanding as to how consciousness and reality are related.â - David Bohm from the introduction to âWholeness and the Implicate Orderâ
âIt will remain remarkable. in what ever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion that the content of the consciousness is the ultimate universal reality.â - Eugene P. Wigner (a Nobel Prize winner and one of the leading physicists of the twentieth century)
We probably arenât alone, but the likelihood of encountering a similar-tech civilization is unlikely