Easy-to-understand part of a lecture on the ideas. A little bit too Platonic for me, but it can get one on the path of breaking away from purely material causes for things. If there’s a meta-force, not necessarily supernatural, but an in-between level between pure classical physical space and that supernatural domain, then material methods (science) of determining ultimate truths are only going to measure phenomenon a posteriori from the cause; it’s not going to be able to determine the ultimate cause of things. That ultimate cause is going to reside in one of those higher levels. Physical reality is much more of a gestalt phenomenon than exceeds science’s reach. Things that seem to be formless, like large-scale structures that we can only perceive a small part of, could have a logical form to it under this idea.
Related: “Panpsychism, the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness, gains steam in science communities”. If mitochondria-consciousness exists, even if it’s a primitive form compared to human consciousness, there’s nothing contradictory about believing humans live inside a much larger consciousness that we’re not able to perceive. Mitochondria don’t have any idea of the form of the human they inhabit; their consciousness is suited for their task at hand. They’re not going to understand what goes on in other parts of the human, or in the human as a whole, and they’re certainly not going to understand larger systems created by groups of humans, like communications, from primal grunts about where the mastodon carcass lies, all the way up to Vaudeville skits. Unless your belief system is restricted by falsifiability, there’s nothing stopping the imaginative man from scaling that up and proposing that humans living within a universe-sized consciousness, with “layers” of reality about which he could only theorize, possibly even experience, but never understand with his rational mind.