I am not ruling them out. But it is only possible to prove such answers "up to solipsism" (or simulation, or similar metaphysics). Beyond that is a leap of fait

I am not ruling them out. But it is only possible to prove such answers "up to solipsism" (or simulation, or similar metaphysics). Beyond that is a leap of faith. All I am saying is that my practice has decreased my willingness to make that leap. Perhaps it is not so dissimilar to how your practice (whatever it is) makes you unwilling to doubt your own consciousness -- something that you would be hard-pressed to justify to (the apparently many) consciousness deniers. Taking a few steps back in the conversation, the reason it seems so silly to doubt that there's an objective basis for consciousness is that we've found an objective basis to basically everything else we've bothered to investigate. I claim that this is a false analogy. Though I'm apparently not good at communicating why, it amounts basically to this: you can be certain of your own consciousness, but of nothing else. Your consciousness and everything else are not on equal metaphysical footing.