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Our experience constitutes only a tiny sliver of reality — me on PBS @NewsHour.
@NewsHour It’s fair to ask how we would ever know something like that. The answer is that we provisionally accept the best theory we have that explains what we do experience, and if that implies there’s much more out there, so bit it.
Of course someone might come up with a better theory, or new data might change our view of the best current one. But until then, the universe is under no obligation to confine its extent to that which is easily perceptible to us.
bit -> be
The most Wheeleresque typo correction of all time.
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