Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation
by Ntrails on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:59AM
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>The simple and scientific answer is that you are not a brain in a jar.
The question is just about simulation. Brain in a jar is an arbitrary thought experiment (Kant's(?) evil genius, or indeed "The Matrix" if you prefer) about how you can be sure your environment is real.
In this there's no information assumed about what is real, just that I'm a unit (brain) processing input (electrical impulses/chemicals/whatever) which are fed to me from a source (unknown). For you to say "you just aren't" and then rely on evidence from the very systems that are being described as compromised is to miss the point.
Don't bring "simple and scientific" to a philosophy fight.
Its a mind body system, as much if not more than it is just a mind + body.
The you who makes decisions on a hungry stomach, is a very different person who makes decisions when satiated, and so on.