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A profound and unsettling disconnection from the very concept of knowing. It’s the feeling that all sources of knowledge—news, science, personal experience, authority—are equally unreliable, leaving you in a state where you can't trust anything, including your own reasoning. This is deeper than simple skepticism; it’s a state of cognitive nihilism where the foundations of "how we know what we know" have crumbled.
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