The rabbit hole of belief

[GliderGuider]

6. "What else is there?"

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Well, when you get right down to it, what may really be "out there" as the structure of the universe and even ourselves is a quantum foam. Such a foam can't be perceived directly, so if that's true, everything we perceive is an interpretation of some sort. In fact there is no way to objectively prove that there is anything out there at all, since all perception happens in the brain/mind. This leads to ideas like the Matrix hypothesis of movie fame.

I have no way to validate my perceptions as being accurate representations of reality, so my decision is not to believe that they do. Instead, I act in day-to-day life as if they do, since that works well enough to get me a cup of coffee and keep from being run over by buses.

Does that help?