I used to have cognitive dissonance, about 10 years ago, before I realized that people were predominantly acting from positions of ignorance, or simply lying about everything. People lie often. People speak falsely often. That is common. Truth is very rare.
When I realized that most “Scientists, Religion, Professors, etc” didn’t even have authority over their own subjects and specializations, that is when I broke free from cognitive dissonance. Humanity is ignorant. Humanity does not know about “existence”. Humanity clings to limitations, walls, security. Humanity clings to finitude, believing (falsely) that the universe has a “beginning” (The Big Bang / Creation Theory) and an “end”.
I do not believe in “Entropy”, that the universe is “expanding”. That’s more bullshit. I do not believe in “wave-particle” duality. More bullshit.
All human paradigms can be rectified insofar as they can be falsified. There is no great “scientific authority”. There is no absolute authority.
If existence and the universe is infinite, then so too must your personal and individual approach be toward discovering all that there is to about existence.
When humans claim the universe is finite, limited, which 99.999% of humanity do… what they are doing is committing a logical fallacy. Because they-themselves are limited, they falsely ascribe their own existential position upon the rest of existence. Just because you will die, does not mean existence will die with you.
That is when I first began to learn about philosophy, and recognize myself as a philosopher.