@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
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