4D -spacetime + the mind = the experience of the events moment by moment...

Spacetime and observers of time and space

Reality, in itself, without observers, is a manifold, a 4D-object.

Spacetime is a 4D-object, which is not directly observable, but only deducable.
Spacetime is therefore a Platonic entity, very real, even more real then our relativistic observations of time and space, but pure abstract and mathematical to us. We can’t observe it directly.
Einstein said that time is an illusion. Physicist Brian Greene also said that time is an illusion.
In my opinion:
Time and space are not an illusion: it’s just a way of reality (spacetime) to present itself to a concious mind.
Through the experience of the events, moment by moment.The interaction of minds (human or animal) with spacetime results in the experience of time by observers.First there was spacetime. Eternal. Undefined. Events from past, present and future existing together in a 4D object.
Then the first conscious observer came into being. A timeline was therefore established and the experience of 3D-space was established. He experiences reality, moment by moment in the actual moment. Which is not how reality outthere, in intself, exists. 
These observers (humans) can deduce spacetime, reality in itself (without observers), based on their relativistic observations of space and time. A mathematical 4D-object. More real then their relativistic observations of space and time. The most important factor in this theory is that 'minds' are involved in physics. Minds are, somehow, lawfully connected to their observations/measurement of the events through time. 

An observer' is a mind in this context. I know that 'observer' in physics has another meaning. But a mind can experience the unfolding of the events moment by moment, an instrument or measuring device can’t. All steps of a scientific  experiment exist together in spacetime. Only a mind can experience the scientific experiment, unfolding itself, moment by moment. The measuring device can’t.  These events of the experiment with the measuring device exist all together outthere in spacetime. Only a mind can experience the unfolding of the scientific experiment, moment by moment.That’s the difference between a mind and a measuring device.

by Maarten Vergucht