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> The only thing you can truly know is what you witness in person.

Why do you trust your eyes? Eyewitness accounts are notoriously inaccurate.

Why trust your brain? How do you even know that the world you think exists is real? Maybe you are just dreaming right now.

You went part-way down the rabbit hole, then stopped. Better to go all the way, then decide on a rational basis for belief (which is probably more complicated than only trusting things you see firsthand), and build from there.



"I trust my own lying eyes"




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