We have no proof that world existed before we gained consciousness -- i mean, if we are pushing the agnostic level of our perception, our reality could very well be a scenario that we are convinced to have when we were slowly developing (or had instantaneously manifested) the separated consciousness that occurs in this separation of external vs. the internal. the nature of our identity is that permeable membrane.

we are amoebas.

oh, what a thought... cultures, philosophies, art, invention, technologies, etc, and we are still amoebas, feeding on and around our little blob of being...