> "Now. You've seen the large number of people wandering around the forest, explicitly searching for you. Not that you enjoy thinking about it and not that I enjoy reminding you of it, but it's necessary to make the point. Think about how this all must have started. A few people saw something strange and believed in you as a result. They tell some friends, who many have also seen something strange, or may just be willing to believe there's something out there, and then they tell their friends, and suddenly there's a large mass of people, all believing you exist. All believing very deeply that you must be out there, hiding somewhere. And as a result of all that belief, you did exist, you were out there, hiding somewhere."
> "In essence, you came to be because a large number of people shared deep personal beliefs with each other. Beliefs that were wrong when the believers first held them, no less, which shulde demonstrate the magnitude of belief it took those people to share them with others. All these people exposed themselves to one another, willing to work together, willing to learn together, willing to believe together, and you were born as a result."