Distilled down a lot, [quantum mechanics] could argue that this universe is a collection of fields that manifest the various observational phenomena that we see/observe/measure.

I'm a lifelong science-oriented philosopher whose main quest has been,
and continues to be, understanding the nature of existence.
For about sixty-five years I've been writing notes (essentially to myself)
related to this inquiry, while trying keep up with scientific understandings.

FWIW, I'm prompted to share some recent entries in my notes that,
at least to my mind, seem relevant to this discussion:

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~~~9mar24~~~
“Someone’s responsible for all this f...ing mess.”
  — TV series Peaky Blinders (season5/ep6 — 35 min from end)

Witnessing this reminds me that observation suggests a singular origin;
raising the question:
  How is causality manifest within original singularity?

Singularity is evolving self-reflection —
  comprised of recollection, cognition, anticipation, expression,
all organically propagating as remembrance —
the entirety ubiquitously regarded as all-encompassing awareness.

Thus does acknowledgement of transcendent experience
apprehend underlying complexification.

~~~9mar24~~~
I’m compelled to ask myself, what’s next to be said or done?

Behavioral possibilities are invariably infinite.
The direction of experience is dictated by intent,
the summary of all prior interactions.

Present expression is indeed a response to all prior experience.

The simultaneity of cognition and expression
poses the ultimate spacetime paradox:
How can anything exist within nothingness?

Any answer is impossible absent ubiquitous experience.

~~~10mar24~~~
So what does any or all of that mean?

To my obviously feeble reckoning,
nada ding is ever sculpted by and within boundless emergence
ubiquitously solicited by intentionally fashioned recollection.

What’s the most effective response to the ever-emergent question:
  ‘What’s best for everything, including me?’

~~~12mar24~~~
Ubiquitous apprehension entangles boundless experience.

However we may be regarded, we’re ongoing becoming.

~~~13mar24~~~
Boundlessly evolving organic perception
ubiquitously hosts emergent experience.

Each of us is even now emergent within ever-evolving experience.

~~~14mar24~~~
Ubiquitously evolving experience
nurtures boundless emergence of infinitesimally exponentiating
enculturating organisms.

My personal proclivity is for experience —
ever-evincing (inherently)evolving intent —
to optimally observe, theorize, hypothesize and speculate
regarding whatever’s now churning within present awareness.

~~~14mar24~~~
Ongoing experience of existence
even now eventuates as whatever’s happening now.
Individuating experience is ubiquitously reflective.

Ubiquitously emergent organically evolving experience
is reflected in awareness.

Experience refers to the becoming of existence.

There is an evolving universal reservoir of experience —
the collective of all organically evolving (self)perception.

This universe is naught but a minuscule slice of existence,
cast within ubiquitously refining (self)perception.

(Self)perception is a narrowing of infinitely abundant awareness.
Original singularity hosts boundless such ephemeral focal points.

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Obviously that's essentially a lot of puzzling.
Hopefully it will resonate with some here. If not, my apologies.
As an aside, I regard myself as neither atheist nor agnostic,
but rather as nothing in particular.
Or perhaps as an infinitesimal glimpse of infinity.

Tom