Could We be Brains in a Vat

摘要: The course of my experience is quite consistent with the hypothesis that it being produced by a mad scientist who feeding into sensory receptors entirely delusive stimuli. Indeed, I could at this very moment be nothing more than brain floating in vat nutrients, nerve ends linked up to some infernal apparatus means which unknown deceiver induces me utterly erroneous beliefs about world. So begins familiar line thought dramatizes an equally sceptical problem relation between our experiences and world. However, Hilary Putnam has recently offered marvellously ambitious argument intended kill stone-dead philosophical fantasy we might deluded brains vat.