If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?

Great A'Tuin?

we know math, 1+1=2, 2+2=4

really hard if not impossible to convince people otherwise

once you've set the axioms of math, everything else follows

Btw, for those saying solipsism, yes, it is a thing but it's not represented here. Frank didn't say "this is my higher being's dream and you're all part of it", he said "we are all in a lower level of reality to that of the external Creator". It's closer to Abrahamic monotheism than solipsism! 😅

I am a Boltzmann Brain and there is literally nothing anyone can do to convince me otherwise...jk

ALL NIGHT LONG

Ah yes solipsism, the principle that we cannot actually know... anything at all... beyond knowing that we ourself exist in some form because we are presently thinking about it, be it as an algorithm running in a simulation, or a brain in a jar being tortured with hallucinations on some 5th dimensional being's shelf.

I remember chuckling to myself upon learning that the answer to this situation is just don't think about it because it isn't productive.

Problem with that is It seems like a perfectly rational argument against the pursuit of productivity.