I’m nitpicky about the word “believe”. So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.
Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of “reality,” seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then “knowledge.”
But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don’t gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it’s fun thinking about it).
I’m nitpicky about the word “believe”. So let me rephrase: I do not believe. Either I know, or I don’t know. Everything else are more or less informed speculations, assumptions or hypotheses at best.
You know things but do not accept them to be true or real?
how do you know you know?
Cogito ergo sum.
Accepting a common framework of provable, i.e., measurable, repeatable, falsifiable phenomena, as a concept of “reality,” seems to be a pragmatic approach, given my sensory inputs and the processing results of my brain. This is then “knowledge.”
But ultimately, this is subordinated to the possibility of an illusion – be it like in The Matrix, or as a Boltzmann brain, or whatever. Unless there is evidence for that, it appears most practical to me to go with the above, as I don’t gain anything from racking my brain about such possible illusions of reality (even though it’s fun thinking about it).