The question is, why do we all experience the same illusion?
Why does a chair look and feel the same to everybody?
How about just keep it simple - the answer I would go with being:
"Because we all have a set of sensory-reception equipment that is built to a (more or less) common specification, and the energy/material of the universe in any given moment of time is a constant, regardless who among us is receiving said sensory input."
The answer above seems to cover the bases pretty well, I feel.
Religionists say that we all see the same illusion and it seems solid because God created this video game of life and put us in it
”Non-Creationists” say that we all see the same illusion and it seems solid because it’s all magic
They say ‘that’s how it is.’ It just appeared like that out of nowhere. Magic
Why do so many seem to feel
entitled to "answers?" While it may make sense, or be an interesting scientific or intellectual exercise to question why the universe exists as it does, where all this stuff came from, or why our senses interpret things in the way that they do, in the end, if we don't end up learning the "why" of existence, it could simply be because there
is no such answer. In any given system, there is a base level of functionality that simply has to exist and for which no further explanation is necessary.
For example, take the system of counting - just talking numbers, no tricks. Within this system we have the abstract idea of "1" - a singular unit or object. Do we need to question "WHY 1?" Does that get us anywhere? It is simply a fundamental subject of the system it resides within, and without it, the system doesn't exist. Should we demand more out of the unit "1?"
"Where did 1 come from?"
"Who created 1?"
"If there weren't 1, what would there be?"
In the same sort of way, there may be no answer forthcoming as to why mass attracts mass, why atoms are capable of reacting to one another as solid when they are composed entirely of tight-knit energies, why the matter of the universe is here. What we have proof of is that it IS here, it DOES react with itself, we ARE a part of it. I'm not advocating that we stop questioning, poking and prodding... only that we stop expecting that the answers will lead us to some kind of end or ultimate answer. There will only ever be more questions and the universe simply doesn't care about that. "Magic" just doesn't seem the right term for things like this - because it tends to imply supernatural origin. These are simply base-level processes of the system of reality.