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Originally Posted by zen_tom
You refer to Occam a number of times, and yet, doesn't the idea that everything you experience has been created so as to fool you seem more improbable than the notion that your senses have evolved over billions of years so that you are able to experience what IS there? Doesn't that explanation pass the Occam test more readily?
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I think it is closer to say that our senses have evolved to protect us from reality, enabling us to deal with life so that we may function: live, breathe, reproduce, etc. More akin to Plato's analogy of the cave.