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Well then those who think they are coming up the sentence one word at a time are equally as easy to fool, no? They could have the whole sentence figured out and their attention is only coming to a single word at a time, possibly revising what's in their field of mental view if they come up with a better word. That's the fun with these sorts of doubts, if we assume nothing, then we can form an argument for anything.



> That's the fun with these sorts of doubts, if we assume nothing, then we can form an argument for anything.

We can form a counter-argument to anything, to be precise. :)

It's very hard to analyze ourselves only from our own consciousness. Especially since the consciousness itself is very likely an illusion [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will




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