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Whenever I read about "weight of experience", "quantum goo", "existentness" etc. I can't keep myself of also thinking of "vital spark", "phlogiston", "ether" and other similar stuff... And it somehow spoils the whole fun...
In the history of mankind, hard looking (meta-)physical dilemmas were much more often resolved by means of elimination rather than by introduction of new "essences". The moral of the history of physics so far is that relativity typically trumps absoluteness in the long run.
For example, I would not be surprised at all, if it turned out that experienced Born probabilities would not be absolute, but would depend on some reference frame (in a very high dimensional space) just like the experience of time, speed, mass, etc. depends on the relativistic frame of reference.
Marcello and I use the term "reality-fluid" to remind ourselves that we're confused.
Dunno about others but I agree that terms like that seem to indicate a serious confusion, or at least something that I am very confused about, and seems others here do too. We're more using them as a way of talking about our confusion. Just noting "there's something here we're failing to comprehend" isn't enough to help us comprehend it. It's more a case of "we're not sure what concepts to replace those terms with", at least so it is to me.