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balor (10/08/2015) [-] 
I read the brain in a vat theory and realized that the only thing I know to be 100% real is my brain.
Maybe I'm questioning reality a bit too much, but now my head feels removed from the rest of existence.
Maybe I'm questioning reality a bit too much, but now my head feels removed from the rest of existence.
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shibe (10/09/2015) [-] Your brain may not even exist, well not my use of brain at least. The only thing you can be sure of is your mind.
Everything else you just kinda have to assume, and I think assuming is sorta the best thing you can do to not freak out.
Everything else you just kinda have to assume, and I think assuming is sorta the best thing you can do to not freak out.
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balor (10/09/2015) [-] Well, even if I knew for a fact that nothing but my mind existed, I don't think I would freak out.
Will I be sad? Yes.
But I will continue living in my world nonetheless. Perhaps a little bit more free, as I now know it's my world.
Will I be sad? Yes.
But I will continue living in my world nonetheless. Perhaps a little bit more free, as I now know it's my world.
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shibe (10/09/2015) [-] Well, I'm a little baffled my mind can spit out such a world, and why can't I tinker with it? How fucking boring mind, you give me this amazing world to explore and you don't even let me have any control. What bullshit.
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balor (10/09/2015) [-] Well
either your mind is hooked up to a machine that simulates the world like the brain in a vat theory.
Or you just don't have full control over your mind.
either your mind is hooked up to a machine that simulates the world like the brain in a vat theory.
Or you just don't have full control over your mind.
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shibe (10/09/2015) [-] brain in a vat theory i think is just a bit stupid
sure it may be correct, but that's really no reason to freak out
sure it may be correct, but that's really no reason to freak out
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balor (10/09/2015) [-] I'm not freaking out.
It's not literally saying your brain is in a vat.
It's just saying you can't prove it's not in a vat. So there is a possibility that nothing you see is true.
And if that's the case, there's no reason to freak out, but there's also no reason to take everything too seriously.
It's not literally saying your brain is in a vat.
It's just saying you can't prove it's not in a vat. So there is a possibility that nothing you see is true.
And if that's the case, there's no reason to freak out, but there's also no reason to take everything too seriously.
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shibe (10/09/2015) [-] i'll still take things very seriously as i feel that even if it is all simulated, these simulations have consequences and i don't wanna end up in the simulation where i get stabbed because i couldn't pay back $20 dollars
