What are some sci-fi authors in the vein of Frank Herbert, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Clarke?

What is reality" is too vague. I can point out various ways that the word "reality" is used. Likewise "mind" and "thought".

You seem to be looking for either definitions (and there are dictionaries for that) or for substantives with which to identify the meanings of these words. But consider that maybe these words are names of "things". People really do think.

What they think about may or may not be real. Ideas have various sources. A field called The History of Ideas traces the origins and evolution of particular ideas - typically those ideas that have been influential on cultural, social, and political history.

Developmental Psychology studies concept formation and language acquisition on the level of the individual. Various plausible explanation involving principles of abstraction, metaphor, metonymy, et al, are invoked to explain the formation of new concepts. "Laws of thought" could be understood normatively, i.e.

As the principles of logic that must be followed to express coherent thoughts, or descriptively, i.e. As principles of psychology that describe the connections and courses that an individual's thoughts may take. It's important to distinguish these, as the early 20th century attack on "psychologism" by Frege and others makes clear.

No one has discovered laws that fully determine thought. People's thoughts are not wholly predictable. What does "superior" mean in discussing mind and matter?

Again, far too vague. We could express certain truisms on both sides, e.g. that ideas such as those that enable us to develop nuclear weapons or to pursue technologies that radically change our environment should the tremendous power of "mind". And yet, day to day, we see that what we imagine, what we hope and wish for, is always challenged by brute reality resisting us.

There are also issues like the role that mind plays in relation to our bodies, our blood pressure and other physiological responses, our immune systems, and so forth. So one might answer your question in those terms. Our most successful scientific theories assume that the world of matter-energy and space-time has existed long before conscious, intelligent beings.

What is there to support an alternative picture? Thought clearly does have importance, as the effect our technological innovations, guided by scientific enquiry, has had on our environment makes quite painfully clear.

Truth cognition sometimes thoughts yes mind depends on who you are, some minds create matter, your mind evolved from matter. Yes-yes and it is just fantasy.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.