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(Actually I don't, but I think the environment cannot be a creation of my brain since it is always insisting so.)
We're not arguing about whether the environment exists, we're arguing as to how you should react to it. What I'm saying is that you should recognize that you are a separate, individual physical entity with the capacity to reason, and that you should be very sceptical of whatever the environment tells you. Not because the environment might not exist (for some definition of "existing", at least), but because the information that you have (and gain) as a physical entity is very very scarce (since you cannot be in several places at the same time and because you can only process a very limited amount of data per unit time), and it's very easy for your brain to play tricks on you and arrive at the wrong conclusions due to not having enough data points or simply by statistical coincidence. And when it comes to giving meanings to things, there is absolutely no reason you should trust another's judgement more than your own; after all, the act itself is inherently a private and subjective one.
If not, then I am a complete waste of intelligence.
We all are. Every single human who has had to die is a waste of intelligence. Sometimes when I read a wikipedia article about a mathematician and I glance at their date of death, it just makes me really sad.