Carlo Rovelli proposes a new “relational” interpretation of quantum mechanics, which goes so far as to suggest that there is no objective reality whatsoever, only perspectives on reality.
Between absolute certainty and ignorance there’s all this interesting space in which we live, he says.
"No entity has a proper independent existence — things only exist depending on one another."
Read more: Carlo Rovelli’s Radical Perspective on Reality | Quanta Magazine
"Our experience of time flowing forward is a product of the second law of thermodynamics — the tendency for physical systems to increase in disorder, or what we call entropy. But this only appears fundamental from our perspective. We happen to be beings that are connected to certain macroscopic variables with respect to which entropy is globally moving in one direction.
My intuition is that the overall flow of time really could be like the rotation of the sky every day. It’s a majestic, immense phenomenon, but it’s actually an illusion. This is a totally perspectival understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. It’s real in the same sense that the rotating sky is real, but it’s real only with respect to us."
If You still have not read his book "The Order of Time", I highly recommend it.
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