Note that the truth of this statement does not depend on any certainty about external reality, nor does it depend on certainty that what I perceive or remember is happening or actually happened.
Note that the truth of this statement does not depend on any certainty about external reality, nor does it depend on certainty that what I perceive or remember is happening or actually happened.
It absolutely assumes a unitary conscious experience versus what increasingly seems to be the case, a bunch of narratives our brains thread into a cohesive story ex post facto.
Put another way, there very well may be hard limits to how much a human-like consciousness can understand itself.
That is exactly the reality I am asserting, whether or not they actually describe an "external" reality
And what I can be certain about is what my internal reality is.
And if you think I cannot be sure of that, I think I can be certain about I think my internal reality is.
And if you think I cannot be sure of even that, I think I can be certain about I think what I think my internal reality is.
It's perception all the way down, recursively. The reality is result of this taken to infinity.
There's abundant evidence to the contrary — at least as far as your recollection of what your consciousness previously experienced.
(IOW: Memory is extremely fallible.)
I said I can be sure of what I am recollecting, not whether the my recollection actually matches what happened.