It might seem obvious that the world around us is real. Yet as computers have become ever more powerful, it seems increasingly possible that everything we experience could be nothing more than code running on the hardware of the future.
All we can rely on to explore reality is the information that we receive through our senses. But we know these can be fooled.
Every object we see as solid is in reality made up of atoms, and those atoms are mostly empty space that is anything but solid. Worse still, our senses regularly mislead us, as optical illusions demonstrate so brilliantly.
What, then, if everything we experience is trickery?
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