Sentences with phrase «brain in a vat»

Well you don't trust science, now apparently and thankfully you don't trust the bible... so I am not sure how you conclude you are not just a brain in a vat.

You are just a brain in a vat, in a Matrix style world.

The «brain in a vat» has long been a staple of philosophical thought experiments and science fiction.

Or make that: we seldom manage to outguess movies that play fair (like Sixth Sense, The Crying Game, the original 1960s Planet of the Apes) instead of cheat — usually the «brain in the vat» type of story such as Fight Club, Vanilla Sky and Identity — that thing about the serial killer at the abandoned motel during a rainy night starring John Cusack.

The argument of «it could be» or «there could be» is epistemically equivalent to saying «we could be a brain in a vat» as a counter to any and all scientific arguments.

as for the «brain in a vat», i'll leave that to smarter people with more time on their hands.

Not exact matches

A brain and nervous system in a vat are not an organism.

With the Human Brain Project, researchers will use supercomputers to reproduce how brains form — basically, growing them in an virtual vat — then seeing how they respond to input signals from simulated senses and nervous system.

Not too far removed from the theory that one's brain is in a vat being zapped by aliens.