if you think the string of inferences fails at some point, you should be able to draw it out - and even if you do, it only suggests a new path whose end is the same "topmost layer" about which you are even now claiming to have made inferences about
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because it poses the question of what text is to be accepted as authoritative. of course one text is direct experience and one text is brain injury but you still have to put some hermeneutic gloss on them to give them sense. (some people regard Philip K Dick as a spiritual guru)
People who have been lying about my nature since before I was born and will continue lying about it after I'm dead have no authority; whatever wisdom they have is forfeit, to be used or cast aside by me as I will.
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but what if it isn't people from before you were born? what if it is your own lying eyes, or God shooting a pink laser right into your brain? or maybe you just took the wrong drug? the epistemological problem is the same.
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If my gender were "wrong" it would entail nihilism to a degree that a mere religion being wrong could never entail.
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