[Acting Like Godot]

Joelr, I am a little surprised you didn't mention David Bohm. You know, the Nobel-prize winning physicist who over a period of 21 years regularly picked the brains of Indian spiritual guru K Krishnamurti, in order to learn more about physical reality.

You can read about Bohm's Implicate and Explicate Order here:

Implicate and Explicate Order according to David Bohm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'll just give you a little excerpt:

In proposing this new notion of order, Bohm explicitly challenged a number of tenets that are fundamental to much scientific work. The tenets challenged by Bohm include:

........ That there is ultimately a sustainable distinction between reality and thought, and that there is a corresponding distinction between the observer and observed in an experiment or any other situation (other than a distinction between relatively separate entities valid in the sense of explicate order).

Heheh. So you see, for Bohm, the truest picture of reality (the most "objective", if you like) is that there is no sustainable distinction between reality and thought; and there is no corresponding distinction between observer and observed, in an experiment or in any other situation.