Is There a Dark Matter Universe?

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If you were to witness a tremendously unlikely event, and had no reason to doubt your mental faculties, would you tell others about this experience at the risk of sounding delusional? Well, i think that if it were a sufficiently unlikely event, it would be a much more likely explanation that i miss experienced something right. This is much higher credence that i misunderstood what was happening than literally the cat going through a wall. So i would go to get a check up or something like that. I would not just hide and keep it to myself. You know, if it's reproducible, that's an entirely different question, right? Because if something unlikely happens once, that's one thing. If

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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