I the only statements of yours that I can't entirely concur with is your
one that expresses confidence in us being able to build sufficiently
complex and correctly adaptively self-organizing (brain mimicking)
machines in only two decades. The only chance that we may do so may be
in 50 to hundred years is if we find a way to 'let lose' a rapidly
automatically evolving AI-algorithmic entities that would then
necessarily/inevitably also endanger us slowly primarily/originally
evolved critters. ;>

Secondly I simply feel that you kept pushing a too polemic position by
overstating that reality is created by our brains - though I must admit
that you eventually began to compensate for this initially created
imbalance. :)

Thirdly and lastly, I think you don't give your self enough credit for
being able to quite "Efficiently Philosophically (and theoretically)
Transcend" (hence I have some hope that you could one day turn out to be
almost as "EPT" a thinker as I am :>) the limitations that keeps so many
people locked into 'loops of imbecilic (or irrational) ideation'.

Appreciatively yours,

Peter