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But you agree that a significantly bigger wall could explain the Fermi paradox in theory?
Also I figured you might be partial to naive realism. I am, if only because I'd have considered it obviously completely retarded a year ago. IIRC the Thomists have a solution to some problem of intentionality where you directly perceive something's form itself. (Er, it's not a form, what's it called? Weird word, starts with an 'h'.) Seems like it fits well with monadology, but I guess not quantum monadology. ...You know, that monads don't change at all is really quite important. I know you know that, but still, "quantum monadology" is a pretty meh name.
It's certainly a way to have a universe full of dark megastructures efficiently harvesting energy on behalf of ancient superintelligences, coexisting with a planet of yokels who just see a wilderness of stars squandering their radiative output. But I would rate 1. Great Filter 2. the "wilderness" is actually alive and busy but the yokels don't know how to see it that way 3. appearances are even more thoroughly illusory than in the planetarium scenario, all as more likely.
That would make hallucination impossible. I think we have direct awareness of something, but not the outside world. The "something" is either part of us or it's alongside "us" in the brain.