Brain in a vat

[kcjeremy]

Watched Matrix again these two days (plus reading Descartes again at the same time). One question comes to my mind... Can we really be certain that we are not a brain in a vat? :confused:

[horace]

The short answer is no, the next question is why do we care?

[Daniel_Cheung]

Watched Matrix again these two days (plus reading Descartes again at the same time). One question comes to my mind... Can we really be certain that we are not a brain in a vat? :confused:

有幾本哲學書是談這個問題的，聞說寫得很認真，不是掛羊頭賣狗肉的（胡亂寫一些來賺錢）。

The short answer is no, the next question is why do we care?

That depends what we should care.

[sbchan]

Watched Matrix again these two days (plus reading Descartes again at the same time). One question comes to my mind... Can we really be certain that we are not a brain in a vat? :confused:

This involves the debate between internalism and externalism in the philosophy of mind. You may have read this entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy already:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/

^^

[sbchan]

The short answer is no, the next question is why do we care?

It seems that Chinese people don't care, while western people care. A basic difference between Chinese philosophy and western philosophy. ^_^

[kcjeremy]

This involves the debate between internalism and externalism in the philosophy of mind. You may have read this entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy already:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/

^^

I read part of it, but not quite finish yet... :p

[sbchan]

I read part of it, but not quite finish yet... :p

慢慢看啦。
記憶中以前matrix的電影網站也有一頁原載了幾個哲學家專為matrix而寫的文章，有些也是講相關題目的。:p