If you then ask yourself for the most likely way that you acquired the beliefs, memories, knowledge, and understanding that you currently hold, the dispassionate answer based on sheer population size is clear: your brain just spontaneously formed from particles in the void, with all of its memories and other neuropsychological qualities imprinted through the particular configuration of the particles. The story you told of how you came to be is touching but false. Your memories and the various chains of reasoning that have led to your knowledge and your beliefs are all fictitious. You do not
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