Hilary Putnam's argument against Brain-in-a-vat skepticism

[thesurvivorssanctuary]

That makes zero sense. You'd experience whatever the simulations wished for you to experience. There's no limitation on what you can discover, or figure out, except for the knowledge the simulation is designed to feed to you.

Like, it's conceivable that the simulation could be trying to make you aware of your situation, yes? That means it isn't impossible for one to know of their situation.

[uzairwaheed]

Yknow when you think of something yourself then find out someone else already thought of it years before you

This is one of those moments

[Djduxnxj]

I don't see at all how that serves as a refutation. Humans say "brain in a vat" because they think of brain as the ultimate organ that makes us what we are. In reality, if the simulation hypothesis was true, it needn't be brain per se, it could be something like a "soul on a trip/dream" or something.

[MetaphysicalArchive]

to put it simply you cant do epistemology if your a brain in a vat

[hafizuddinghafar]

So you just a "Soul in a Body"