Re: How will you know that you've woken up from non cryogenic sleep?

From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Sun May 05 2002 - 18:11:27 MDT

On 2002.05.05, YP Fun <ypprotection@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:
> > "Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com> Wrote:
> >
> > > "What if you were a brain in a vat ..."
> >
> > Yea, and what if you were a brain in a skull... Oh.
> > Never mind.
> >
>
> These are non-targeted insults aka
> attack a person by substituting in a name.
> Waste of time and resource... please stop.
>
> I prefer not to see personal attacks at all
> but if you are going to make a personal attack
> could you be more intelligent and "target" the
> victim aka address something "specific" that they
> say that is relevant "only" to them, at least then I
> can get a smile for opening up the email.

YP,

I can only assume that English is not your first and
certainly not your most proficient language. John was
making a funny joke which must have gotten lost in
translation to your natural first language. To help
you out, I'll elaborate on his joke to increase the
chances of you understanding it, since I think it
was pretty funny and worth a laugh:

John was suggesting that we can't know if we were
a brain in a vat, just the same way that we can't
know we're a brain in a skull which is what we
assume we really are.

Suppose we were brains in vats but fooled into
believing we were brains in skulls. Would life be
any different?

-- Dossy 

-- 
Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com 
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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