““Are we in a dream?” Lebret asked. “Might we actually be dead and in some afterlife?”
“How could we test either supposition?” the scientist asked, with characteristic practical-mindedness. “What conceivable experiment could we design to falsify such a claim?””

— Adam Roberts , book Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea

Source: Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (2014), Chapter 14, “Confinement” (p. 133)

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““Are we in a dream?” Lebret asked. “Might we actually be dead and in some afterlife?”
“How could we test either supposition?” the scientist asked, with characteristic practical-mindedness. “What conceivable experiment could we design to falsify such a claim?””