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I feel like you're going beyond anything I've said.
I had to look up this presup you keep saying. I think you're just defending science or something because you feel threatened by what I'm saying. Maybe you hated me using the word "assumption". I'm not a skeptic. I'm not trying to convince anyone that religions have the same weight as science or anything. I'm an atheist. Science is my living.
Science begins with an assumption that the senses are real. That's it.
Caveman and fire analogy? Yes, started with an observation using senses. Then the questions came. And seeking understanding of the observations. That's all well and good; great even. Science is the study of our natural world and that is only perceived through our senses. Even when our senses seem to be wrong, like water bending light. It was through further observation that we get new, better information. Cool that senses are used for other things as well. Even before science, and even by other living things.
As long as there exists some possibility that we're all in a computer simulation, our senses are an assumed reality. I'll repeat though, that doesn't make anything more or less likely, it just is what it is.