This essay builds on the concept of "Boxes" introduced in my April Summary.  In a nutshell, we are all trapped in "Box 1", which is the world "inside our heads". For millennia, there has been little dispute over the fact that our access to "reality" is far from trustworthy. In the extreme, there are those who claim that "reality" doesn't exist at all, or at least the existence cannot be proven. I am reminded of a professional geologist I once met. He managed to make a living dating million-year-old rocks, while simultaneously believing that the world was 4,000 years old. As the Red Queen said, we are capable of believing six impossible things before breakfast. "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why,...

The history of philosophy is polluted by centuries of ersatz "explanations" that are really simple stories to be told around the campfire. For example, the sun rises and sets "because" a god is riding his flaming chariot across the sky. Nobody around the campfire asks why the god is doing this or how the storyteller know this is the case. I carried my own twisted ideas of "explanation" into my first year of University physics whereupon, after mastering the math behind Newton's theory of gravitation, I asked the instructor, But what is gravity? He said that it was not a proper task of physics to answer such questions. Physics only describes the world. Of course, this does not stop some physicists who still want to know "why" the gravitational constant is what it is, or "why" the Big Bang happened. It is obvious to anyone, that such explanations if they are ever discovered, will only lead to more questions. Most people are not terribl...