Man no longer needed God, nor even the idea of an underlying reality. “There are human perceptions,” said Walcott, “human testimonies, human experiences; reason links them, and emotion brings them alive. All of this happens without any metaphysical intervention, without any ontology at all. We don’t need concepts of God or nature or reality anymore. In experiments, it is possible to get a group of observers to agree on the basis of reasonable intersubjectivity;
