Thanks, I was trying to make roughly the same point in a roundabout way. The comment I replied to seemingly made an implicit assumption not supported by physics

Thanks, I was trying to make roughly the same point in a roundabout way. The comment I replied to seemingly made an implicit assumption not supported by physics, being outside of its scope, that reality causes consciousness, while as you say it could equally be the opposite as far as the framework of natural sciences is concerned. If so, we should mind both possibilities, and I very much agree that philosophy is key to learning about the issue (as opposed to physics, chemistry, biology and so on), though I might add Kant to your list.