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This is a modern updating of Decartes's Demon concept from 1641. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
by sambeau 13y ago
This is a modern updating of Decartes's Demon concept from 1641.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon
- hyperpape 13y agoThe trope of a Brain In A Vat is an updating of it, yes. But the linked article is really about Putnam's argument that the thought experiment is somehow defective.