brain in a vat

@deepthought said
It 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 brai ...[text shortened]... eflect limits on their computational power. So I don't think any of this is particularly plausible.

@lemon-lime said
And for those of you (you know who you are) who haven't spent enough time in your life watching movies...

[youtube Abby Normal]p9MKDWvtk6Q[/youtube]

@KellyJay
Can you fix that link?

@sonhouse said
@KellyJay
Can you fix that link?

@sonhouse said
@KellyJay
Can you fix that link?

YouTube : Abby Normal

@KellyJay
I liked "My name is Franen STEEN" 😉

@sonhouse said
@KellyJay
I liked "My name is Franen STEEN" 😉

YouTube : My name is...

@lemon-lime
Ah, I had it backasswards"😉

@sonhouse said
@lemon-lime
Ah, I had it backasswards"😉

YouTube

@lemon-lime
Vell, my memory pills are vorking then.....

@sonhouse said
There are hundreds of thousands of brains in a vat, just not alive.....
I gather you have just watched Donavan's Brain.

@AThousandYoung
I imagine there are several more in foreign language films.

@KellyJay

Einstein's brain was stolen

@ogb

What would your guess be, who took it, who's using it at present?
Someone on this site? 🙂