... life.  We could be Brains in a Vat or a butterfly'... can be traumatic. Most actually believe we *are* brains in a ... Heh.  Yes, but the "Brain in a Vat" reference alludes to ... problem.  If we were merely brains being fed simulated experiences, there ... including the idea that our brain is a bunch of grey ...the neurological dept, where specific brain cells responded to stimulus, befor...

...a current life.  We could be Brains in a Vat or a butterfly's ... that can be traumatic. Most actually believe we *are* brains in a vat....bone.:-) Heh. Yes, but the "Brain in a Vat" reference alludes to a well-known epistemological problem. If we were merely brains being fed simulated experiences, there would ...illusory, including the idea that our brain is a bunch of grey stuff ...

..., we don't even know if we really have a current life.  We could be Brains in a Vat or a butterfly's dream.  All this certainty about the unknowable just makes me cringe. ... inflict your experiences on 'them', and that can be traumatic. Most actually believe we *are* brains in a vat. The vat being skull shaped and made of bone.:-) BOfL

... may see if they look. Or perhaps we don't have past lives. Just a suggestion. Hell, we don't even know if we really have a current life. We could be Brains in a Vat or a butterfly's dream. All this certainty about the unknowable just makes me cringe.

... world" (The microcosm). Very good, and in a sense, this goes beyond the "Matrix" or the "brain in a vat theory" being the idea that we could be fooled about everything we experience. But what about if the self is the result of only the activities of and around the brain, this would leave an opening where our very self-itself could just be a ...

... A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain Meet Gordon, probably the world's...first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Oh crap, The creation ... has begun. :) Yes. Get a vat that can grow rat neurons ... intelligence curve should the artificial brain industry be allowed to progress ... my attempts to build artificial brains. With my right hand I ...

Spaceman wrote: Immortalist wrote: A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Oh crap, The creation of the Dalak race has begun. :) Yes. Get a vat that can grow rat neurons and produce an insert that is 1m x 1m x 1m, ...

On 28 May, 13:45, someone2 <glenn.spig...@btinternet.com> wrote: I was wondering if any here had any counters to the robot brain in a vat experiment (shown inwww.answernot42.com) showing that our experience cannot be explained without purpose. I'm surprised so many understood it, such that there were no silly responses by those that hadn't.

I was wondering if any here had any counters to the robot brain in a vat experiment (shown in www.answernot42.com) showing that our experience cannot be explained without purpose.

... bodies and their interaction with brain and planning for action in...moment you are actually a brain hooked up to a sophisticated...difficulties, I ask you (the brain) where you are (the program...of patterns from your own brain, which has neural networked associations...test? I would ask the brain to examine the authenticity of...be unconvincing? If the brain in the vat is asking the...