For the better part of human history our fundamental trust, in reality, has been based on a combination of experience—in the form of empirical sensory data and in the ephemeral—and our interpretation of that data and how we attribute its causes. One might call it the Senses vs. Spirit debate. Millennia have been spent arguing about the veracity of the claims for the empirical vs. the ephemeral as the basis for trust in reality. But along the way, a third contender has quietly entered the field—digitization.
