@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Poundstone, W.}, subject = {Brains in a Vat}, note = {I 318 Brains in the Vat/Poundstone: each object then means electrical pulses (only different sequence), then also "brain" - then the reference of "I'm a brain in a vat" also electrical pulse sequence and not the brain. >Reference, >Meaning, >Knowledge, >Certainty, >Skepticism. So the sentence is wrong, because we are not pulses. Poundstone/Solution: "I am what they call a "Brain in the vat" in lab speak". Problem: "Lab speak" is metaphysical. >Levels/order, >Description Levels, >Metalanguage, >Theory Language. I 340 The theory of brains in a vat has no predictive power. - As little as the cipher "iii..." - because everything depends on electrical pulses. >Code. The next apple may fall upwards; because it is moved by an electrical pulse and not by gravity. >Induction, >Causation.}, note = { Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225394} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=225394} }