An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness."