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maybe?
@lemondrop saidThere are hundreds of thousands of brains in a vat, just not alive.....
maybe?
@sonhouse saidmore in the likes of the matrix
There are hundreds of thousands of brains in a vat, just not alive.....
I gather you have just watched Donavan's Brain.
@lemondrop saidBrains don't work without stimulation and interaction. So it'd have to be something like the permanent dream state Matrix in which the brain was tricked into thinking it was out there walking around.
more in the likes of the matrix
@sonhouse saidI really don't know what I'm talking about
@wildgrass
But the matrix had people crashing into the digital world so THOSE brains were hooked to a living body, not a brain in a vat.
@sonhouse saidIt doesn't matter whether the brain is being kept alive by a body or a life support system. One needs the entire nervous system though, just the brain would be a problem because one needs to know which fibre in the brain's junction with the spinal cord is connected with which nerve ending to give the brain inputs it can make sense of and to handle the outputs so the brain in a vat can interact with the world. This means one has to distinguish between sensory nerves and motor nerves and there are trillions of them. One would also need to simulate the body and let the brain think it's running an actual body rather than just getting random inputs. So the user experience, so to speak, is the same in the matrix films, where their entire bodies are in vats, as it is in the case of an actual brain in a vat.
@wildgrass
But the matrix had people crashing into the digital world so THOSE brains were hooked to a living body, not a brain in a vat.
@sonhouse saidGrab the one named "Abbey".
There are hundreds of thousands of brains in a vat, just not alive.....
I gather you have just watched Donavan's Brain.
@whodey saidROFL, a friend of mine and I at work just talked about "Abbey", last name "Normal". 🙂
Grab the one named "Abbey".
@kellyjay saidAnd for those of you (you know who you are) who haven't spent enough time in your life watching movies...
ROFL, a friend of mine and I at work just talked about "Abbey", last name "Normal". 🙂
I have spend to much time in my life watching movies. 🙂