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Re: "these seemingly benign questions might be a test - from the programmer of the supercomputer" A question that comes to mind reading this is: So? What is my reward if I answer the way that satisfies the programmer?
Posted by anonymous on 8/10/2008 11:07:19 PM
but... you ARE a brain in a vat... your skull. And you ARE experiencing a 'virtual reality', filtered by your senses, which are sampling only a small section of the physical world.
Posted by anonymous on 11/16/2008 4:31:14 PM
Ha, we dont even exist, its a long story, perhaps you could put it up on your site, it gos by the "if a tree falls in a forest" thiory, "if thers nothing to exspearence anything,dose anything exist?" its an intresting quistion, if you can poke good holes in this feal free, but it made me think.
Posted by hugh on 12/19/2009 3:48:50 PM
Isn't this just a modern day spin to Descartes'thesis?
Posted by a on 1/2/2010 9:58:54 PM
when I first heard this, it was a mad scientist manipulating the brain, haven't times changed!
Posted by Wendy Gibson on 8/28/2010 7:43:02 PM
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