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Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by malermeister on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:43PM (#29505505)
Beliefs are reality.

> a brain simply isn't big enough for this in purely quantitative terms [quotation needed].

And again, what if all of this, avogadro numbers, hacker news, your conception of reality all were a hallucination? How would you know? How can you definitely prove it is not?

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Re:Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 10, 2021 @05:57AM (#29508514)
Hallucination with such details is not a mere hallucination, but a conspiracy. If the conspiracy is flawless, it's meaningless to differentiate it from reality, it's literally precise equivalence. It's a more complex theory than realism too.
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