You might be interested in the ideas of Bernardo Kastrup. He has combined philosophy and quantum physics to get to a sense of what reality us. He proposes that all things that we see and experience, all matter really, is just an image of a deeper reality. Like how this text on your screen is just an image produced by the LEDs in your screen. So are materials also just an image of some underlying force.

He states that what we experience and the way scientists research nature, is real enough, but not actually how it all works. If you want to dig down to the deeper questions like “why do we exist” and “what is reality”, you have dig to a deeper level.

Quantum entanglement is where you see this happen, according to him. One general theory is that every fraction of a second, another dimension is created and that’s how you get entanglement. However, Kastrup claims that these particles are connected through a deeper force. He calls it a natural consciousnes. It connects every material thing. Entanglement happens when you look at the same “point” on that consiousness, but from a different perspective.

I thought this was quite a catchy theory. If you want to hear more about it, here’s a Dutch podcast