The burden of proof relating to conciousness, free choice and rationality

[Angrboda]

I have no problem with that as a belief. I would however have a problem if you asserted it as knowledge. My take on the whole affair is, our minds exist in a small bowl of jello-like flesh inside our skulls. It has no direct apprehension of the real, all information it receives about the real is indirect, and the ways it represents the real in thought bear no resemblance to the reality they are meant to resemble. From that point of view, it would seem well nigh impossible for a human mind to have true knowledge of reality, nor any direct way to demonstrate the truth of its beliefs even if it did. The mind, for better or worse, is built to do certain things, and it does them remarkably well; reality, absent or present, has little to do with the probabilistic trajectories of our squishy little minds.