[shadowgovt]

It's always fascinating to me to observe the small distance between the two in some philosophies.

The Discourse on the Method of Descartes, in which his famous phrase je pense, donc je suis occurs also includes a preceding segment where he considers whether he can know anything at all, or whether he's a disembodied consciousness fed false information by evil demonic powers (if you will, the "Matrix hypothesis"). He rebuts that hypothesis with a simple assertion that a just and loving God wouldn't allow such an arrangement of events to be the true nature of reality.

Depending on your bent, that can either allow the discourse to continue or put the brakes completely on it.