do not believe it; testify (or not). nothing can be known by 'being told':
1. the 'universe' 'appears' as what it 'would be' if it could. 2. any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from its absence. 3. reason is the first victim of reasoning. 4. the very ground of reason itself is indistinct from inherent, non-invented ethics. 5. ...