"What if there are other optical illusions about our existence that are just as major as the illusion of the Sun revolving around the Earth? What are the odds that you live in exactly the window of human existence when all of the major optical illusions have been discovered? Wouldn't that be an amazing coincidence, since every previous generation of humans has believed they were born in that window of time?"
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