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All human evidence rests upon the shaky foundation of "because I believe its true", at the bottom of which rests the shaky foundation of your personal experienc
by program_whiz 7y ago
All human evidence rests upon the shaky foundation of "because I believe its true", at the bottom of which rests the shaky foundation of your personal experiences. Don't believe me? Just ask a schizophrenic how hard it is to disbelieve your own experience.
Reminds me of the HP Lovecraft novel "The Call of Cthulu" Page 1, Paragraph 1:
> The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.