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Originally Posted by (Impenitent,) mind? prove you aren't a brain in a vat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-in-a-vat
knowledge is an impossibility, there is no necessary connection...<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
I've said that same thing somewhere else on the forum I think, but without the supercomputer angle. Anyone who has ever awakened from an extremely realistic dream (the kind you wake up from and have to sit there for a minute to figure out where you are) should know what's real shouldn't be overthought.
Using the assumption that we all ARE real, science alone should prove the tenuous quality of what's REAL, as there are constant "discoveries" which seem to prove that what was once real, ain't real any more.
I think I'll go to bed now, and maybe change the channel and conjure up a really nice reality.
Jim (if indeed that IS my real name)