From: Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Date: Fri Jul 03 1998 - 18:05:00 MDT
>Hilary Putnam's old brain in a vat story eh? Well here's the thing. I don't
>see how such a story can be disproven. Not yet anyway. This doesn't mean
>that it's impossible to disprove, only that there doesn't seem to be any way
>to do so at the moment.
I think the use of these notions is to show us just how much of philospohy
and discussion of consciousness is utter nonsense. Also in showing us the
implicit assumptions we use in ideas we think are well defined. First on my
nonsense list is the word "real".
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