A publication by The Atlantic going over his works:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/

My immediate intuition is that this is just bad philosophy disguised as pseudoscience, and from a philosophical perspective none of this makes sense. Am I wrong here? I would like insights.

He believes in so-called “conscious realism”, which believes that matter does not exist, and in fact, only consciousness exists.

Here’s a critical analysis of some of his stuff: https://philarchive.org/archive/ALLHCR

Edit: Please don’t downvote if you think this guy is a nerd, I am skeptical of him myself, but please, upvote so a particularly strong of constitution comrade can detail their opinions and dunk on him