The Uncertainty Principle: The Essence of Faith and Existence

Having faith is not a religious act. Having faith is an inherent need, a human necessity to believe in something that can serve as a solid foundation to support the complex structure of our reality. It's like digging deep foundations, capable of withstanding the earthquakes that life throws our way. Faith is often associated with religion, exploited to shape cultural and social structures through which religion constructs its city. It's the power to manipulate these foundations to influence what's built upon them. It's the power to say, "If you question these foundations, the entire edifice of your reality may collapse, leaving you with only rubble."

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But in reality, having faith is not inherently religious. It's a daily necessity, a pillar on which we rest much of our existence because living in total uncertainty would be unbearable, a mental torture. Nothing is real without faith. Nothing is truly certain, not even this reasoning. We can never have absolute certainty about anything, except perhaps our personal existence. The only thing we can have a glimmer of certainty about is that we exist because we have self-awareness. But even this certainty is limited.

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We cannot be 100% certain about the reality of our hands typing on a keyboard, nor the reality of the world around us. We could be in a dream, a delusion, or an illusion. How can we be sure that our neighbor truly exists? That they are not a figment of our own mind? How can we be certain that anyone else exists? What is the ultimate proof of the existence of another consciousness? Perhaps the fact that this consciousness thinks? But what if their thoughts are a product of our own hallucination?

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We can even cast doubt on the entire universe, questioning if we are the only being, the only consciousness, the only object existing in the vastness of space and time. We cannot be certain that we are not a character in a virtual reality created by our own mind. We can even doubt everything and suppose that the universe exists only through the lens of our perception, that every night when we close our eyes, the universe ceases to exist, only to rise again every morning when we awaken.

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We have no definitive evidence that refutes these possibilities. We have nothing beyond faith that allows us to assert the opposite. Therefore, faith cannot be reduced to a religious act. It is a fundamental act of existence, an intrinsic human necessity that enables us to make sense of the world around us despite the lack of absolute certainties. Faith is what keeps us anchored in this ocean of uncertainty, making our existence meaningful in an apparently boundless universe.