From 1996: "Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare that seeing is believing!" Well, we only just made it past that first part, collectively, and consensus has yet to catch up by any metric of the implication.
X-Files: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'