the eye of Nova's mind

I believe "objective" reality is more or less a linguistic concept, since perception itself is a metaphor insofar as it is composed of interpretive (hence subjective) data. Just as one can mathematically describe a triangle without there actually being a triangle present, perception is simply a description of the phenomena our souls come into contact with and reflect in the act of perceiving, positing it in the mentally-generated field of the "physical" (though perseonally, I believe physicality is an illusion as well - there is only Being and the awareness thereof IMO)