How do we know we aren't a brains in a vat with a computer sending electrical impulses to the brain to simulate the world
>op reinvents the Boltzmann brain
>>18389801We don't.Also, it doesn't make any difference, unless you have some way of proving that is the case, and you can suggest a way to get back into our bodies. Until then, for all intents and purposes, the reality that we experience is the only one.
>>18389801Also: Descartes's point was basically that it's silly to be too skeptical because if we take it to its logical conclusion, the only thing we could be certain of is that I can think, and wouldn't that be stupid.
>>18389801You don't but you have no reason to assume you are one either.
>>18389834I obviously live in a a fake world because other people rape my mind and they demonstrate constantly that they're a tranny hivemind without independent consciousnesses
>>18389826That wasn't his point at all. Read the book, it's pretty entertaining for philososlop.
>>18389801I think the better question is, does it matter?
