(June 24, 2017 at 10:54 pm)Parsim0ny Wrote: Actually, you should trust the physical reality only if it is consistent and logical, not the other way around. When you see a mirage before you, you immediately reject its appearance based on your inner knowledge that it is a natural optical phenomenon.
I'll just point out that natural optical phenomena like mirages are part of physical reality, the physics governing how and why they operate being totally "consistent and logical".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'