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It's going to suck for all those scientists when they realise their "evidence" is just false data fed to their brains in vats, though. (Or, more generally, thi
by voyou 13y ago
It's going to suck for all those scientists when they realise their "evidence" is just false data fed to their brains in vats, though.
(Or, more generally, this "quack philosophy" is trying to get us to think about what knowledge is, and you can't understand how science works without thinking about the concept of knowledge).
- Nursie 13y agoIf it's unknowable if you're a brain in a vat, then it doesn't really matter whether the evidence is false data fed to a brain in a vat.... >> (Or, more generally, this "quack philosophy" is trying to get us to think about what knowledge is, and you can't understand how science works without thinking about the concept of knowledge) So why does so much of it read like verbal masturbation and concern itself with language and word definitions (subjective human constructs) rather than any actual knowledge? How a brain in a vat tokenises its thoughts is utterly irrelevant to the underlying question, which surely is more about the viability of solipsism as a concept than whether we have our words in the right order?