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"Who’s to say that your fallible memory is incorrect" - you can very easily test if someone has a bullet through their head. Well, assuming someone didn't go an

• hnlmorg 1mo ago
  > you can very easily test if someone has a bullet through their head. Well, assuming someone didn't go and steal their brain. Do you have access to their head? How do you know that someone didn’t swap that head for someone else who had been shot? Like I said, this is purely a philosophic argument. I’m not actually trying to suggest that there isn’t such thing as “facts”. > And you're talking about something else - a chain of trust with respect to those facts. No, I’m making a psychological point that our perceptions are what we use to construct our reality, and that our perceptions are malleable. If they weren’t, then drugs would have no effect, psychosis wouldn’t be a thing, and people’s opinions wouldn’t differ about even the most straightforward things like god, globe vs flat earth, and so on and so forth. > This is starting to go down the crazyness line I had mentioned. I get it's fun to philosophize about such things, but it's not how we live. I agree. As I said in the previous comment: “To be clear, I don’t think this line of thinking helps much. But it’s an interesting philosophical dilemma.”