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This line of reasoning also violates Occam’s razor. I might argue that when you turn on the light switch, a light fairy goes from the switch to the light and activates the light with their own fairy light energy. When you turn off the switch, the fairy returns and the light turns off. The fairy, of course, is invisible, incorporeal, and can travel at the speed of light. There is no way you can prove that my light fairy doesn’t exist. Sure, you can argue that opening and closing a circuit correlates with the light turning off and on, but that correlation doesn’t prove causation. When the ...more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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