In that case, are you sure I’m not a bot just responding to this thread, or worse, an AI struggling to achieve consciousness? There’s no good argument against the belief in God to religious believers because there’s no empirical evidence of His existence or lack thereof. I can’t tell if this is all a dream so I will let Descartes spend his life answering that question for me. Whether a dream in the 1600s or a computer simulation now is the same concept just with better internet. Is it a leap of faith for me to accept reality? I can pursue this rabbit hole thinking until I am insane. So for my own sanity I accept that I am real and that the world is not a simulation. I accept I am real and not in an elaborate dream.

Your point, though, is well taken because I have to think of a response. Or am I just collecting data from my confined environment and spewing it out mindlessly?

I like Rovelli’s point. But the headline is interpretive. I don’t believe it requires a leap of faith to trust your sensory experiences. It takes knowledge and understanding and perhaps empathy to understand that you view the world not only through your eyes but through your emotions. You will have a much different perspective of an event if you’re feeling sad or if you are feeling elation. Same event, different visceral reaction. Knowing this is an absolute you can try to view the event as objectively as possible despite your emotional state in order to come to as clear an understanding of the situation as possible. This is no small effort but it is also no leap of faith.

Terminator future confirmed.

Pictures of Jesus on the cross should be banned for excessive depiction of violence and antisemitism

Human made noise pollution hinders my ability to work alone.

You can say, “well, perhaps not in the Websterian sense of the word. “