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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:17:19 GMT, "Tim McSweeney"
<tim##NO_SPAM##@ams.co.nz> wrote:
> This is an interesting point of view. If I am to be totally rigorous then
> as I sit here typing how do I know the back of me head still exists? I
> can't see it, I'm not touching it, It doesn't hurt or tickle or anything,
> there is no sensation I can pinpoint coming from there. In fact how do I
> know I'm even at work typing? I might be at home asleep, Or in fact I could
> be a brain in a vat in some mad scientists lab being fed psychotropic drugs
> to give me strange nightmares.
Think on this some more and you'll be the Ruler of the Universe. [0]
Jasper
[0] No points for this reference.
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| (...) could (...) drugs (...) What are you implying? that I am a brain in a vat? Are you the scientist? Did you eat my body? Tim (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) it (...) of (...) This is an interesting point of view. If I am to be totally rigorous then as I sit here typing how do I know the back of me head still exists? I can't see it, I'm not touching it, It doesn't hurt or tickle or anything, there (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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