The following material requires a very intellectual and philosophical mind to digest and understand, but by all means read and ponder.
Brains in a Vat: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/
Or http://www.butte.edu/~machuga/God%20of%20all%20Grace/Chapter%204.html
It basically suggests and refutes that we (you, or anyone) are just brains in a vat connected to a super-computer because we are able to ask the question are we just brains in a vat.
Unfortunately the theory is flawed because it assumes we are dealing with human brains in a vat, but that may not be the case.
Is it not possible that everything we think, feel, believe, sense, taste, smell, you name it is in fact virtual, and everything science or religion puts forward is just virtual. Is it not possible that all the troubles in the world are just virtual. Is it not possible that the universe is just virtual, and that the intelligence in a vat will never know the answers to anything in our world or universe.
2006-08-04
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