This beautifully humbling and strengthening experience cannot be the result of Cartesian scepticism, which is absolute and extreme. It's actually premodern moderate realism in concrete form:
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But paradoxically, the more your identity shrinks as a result of this process, the greater your confidence in what's left. It will likely last longer than the last layer that was peeled away. It strengthens your solipsism.
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