How could we trust our consciousness ?!

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If consciousness is a product of evolution, how can we trust its outputs?

Do not we live in a bubble .. Illusion of knowledge?

Well, consider the fact that in order to survive, the senses have to give data that is at least somewhat reliable and that the brain has to process that data in such a way that the conclusions are correct, at least to the extent that they impact on differential survival.

What that means is that we can relay, at least to some extent, about our perceptions on ordinary, human, scales of distance and time and in those contexts where the information would be related to survival.

It's likely true that our behaviors need to reliably produce survival, but it's not necessarily true that the truths that our minds refer to actually be true, only that believing them to be true leads to successful, pro-survival behaviors. It's entirely possible that we do all the right things, but for all the wrong reasons. So long as we do the right things, how would we go about determining that the reasons we did them were the right reasons? There doesn't appear to be a way out of this quandary.