“There’s a principle by which he’s most known. ‘I think, therefore I am.’” Charlie watches me curiously, so I go on. “I know I exist because I think. Because I think, I exist. I have no real proof that anything else is real, but I know my conscious thoughts to be. Correct?” He nods slowly. “The same is true for you,” I say, squeezing his hand. “Which brings me to two conclusions I came to earlier that are, in fact, one and the same. Either you think you are a man, therefore you are one. Or my own brain has produced all of this, in which case I am to decide what’s real. And you’re real to me,
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