&gt; Just because the understanding of consciousness is rather much in its infancy doesn&#x27;t give people blank checks to make shit up.<p>Exactly. That&#x27;s why you can&#x27;t say things like &quot;it&#x27;s just messing with your perception&quot; because you really don&#x27;t know what &quot;it&#x27;s <i>just</i>&quot; doing.<p>I didn&#x27;t say anything about consciousness existing outside of the physical world. All I said is that &quot;you don&#x27;t really know&quot;. But, whenever I say something like that people tend to project some other argument onto me, like I&#x27;m here to defend everything any LSD user ever said.