Dear Georgina,
Which came first, reality, or humanly contrived abstract thought? What am the only logical way reality could have been operational before humanly contrived thought became evident? It would have to be because reality was structured eternally. Humanly contrived thought has a finite discriminating quality about it. What do you see when you look at the real skeleton of the former real dinosaur in the real museum? You see that each real bone has a real visible surface. It logically follows that the real visible earth that the real dinosaurs existed on over a million years ago had to have had a real visible surface. It am physically impossible to think about reality because all thoughts are supposedly finite . I only see surface no matter in which direction I look. I cannot possibly be unique. My cat Greyson must also see surface no matter in which direction he looks. The dinosaurs must have only ever seen misty surface no matter in which direction they looked. We can comment INFINITELY on whether or not I am right or not.
Joe Fisher, ORCID ID 0000-0003-3988-8687. Unaffiliated