Dear David,
Thank you for a very interesting and well-written essay.
While reading your essay I made the following remarks.
I am like you also attracted to the mystery of life and consciousness
When you are describing the Bohr/Einstein discussion and the String theory you clearly give a description of the problems scientist have in finding solutions, it is only discussions.
From the two paths at the end of page two, I agree with number two. But when I say that immediately I have to ask myself is an illusion finite or infinite? (see my Total Simultaneity Interpretation). The answer could on one side be finite because it is just a moment, but, on the other side infinite because it emerges from its infinite source that is eternal timeless), so our reality can be an infinite part of infinity. So I think I just cannot answer my own question.
"Where do we come from...etc" is also one of "questions" I am trying to explain. You say that MOND requires new paradigms and couple this to the subject of the contest. I explain in my essay that MOND is just another interpretation of the many (not a bad one, because bad interpretations do not exist).
You are very well treating all the "missing knowledge" of the reality we are living in, but not giving an interpretation that brings this situation forward.
Each day agents are developing their conscious idea's, that is why I made changes in MY ESSAY (Wilhelmus de Wilde re-uploaded the file Wilde_THE_COMPLETELY_UNKNOW.pdf for the essay entitled "THE COMPLETELY UNKNOWN" on 2020-03-25 10:48:58 UTC.)
I hope that you will spare some time to read and comment on my interpretations. (It seems from the scores I received that you can be or for or against it)....
Thanks
Wilhelmus