It is indeed an anthropocentric view of things. That’s how vain we’ve been collectively for thousands of years. That’s what largely explains the contents of religion and spirituality, from animism to New Age, and it’s what explains also the secular fervor to replace natural environments with artificial ones. Not everyone is terrified of nature — but our species as a whole? Yeah, pretty much.

If you have to resort to solipsism to deny that nature, from red-in-tooth-and-claw evolution to the vast, indifferent and inhuman universe is horrific to social creatures, I think that’s actually an exception that proves the rule, rather than a counterargument. To say that only subjective states are real is to deny the inhuman reality of objective nature, and why else would anyone be inclined to do that unless objective nature (the godless, mindless configurations of atoms in the void) were horrific?