Whose reality?

After reading:

30-Second Brain: The 50 most mindblowing ideas in neuroscience, each explained in half a minute (30 Second) Kindle Edition 2014 by Anil Seth (Editor)

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World Kindle Edition 2017
by David Eagleman (Author), Anthony Brandt (Author)

The Little Book of Big History: The Story of Life, the Universe and Everything 2016 Kindle eBook
by Ian Crofton and Jeremy Black

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Everyone’s reality is different. It is rooted in nature (genetics), nurture (enculturation) and chance (serendipity). Reality is mind-made and is expressed as thoughts, feelings and moods.

In the long days of ancestral foraging, people were exposed to the limited world views of the small groups to which they belonged. The views were communicated in terms of myths and magic and there were many of them. 

Since the coming of settled agriculture 10,000 years ago there has been an ever increasing division of labour and different world views for the elites and the masses. Religious, political, and corporate leaders conspire to keep the masses in parochial, xenophobia and ignorance.

Since the coming of the internet and the possibility of ‘no boundaries’ (ref Ken Wilber) it gets more likely that more people will expand their horizons (ref cosmic zoom).

But what percentage of the population are able and willing to embrace the new way of thinking and doing?