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- From: mcdermot@mdd.comm.mot.com (Steven McDermott)
- Subject: Re: On the subject of Kant..
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- References: <C0JL60.Jww@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan8.195542.27667@shearson.com> <C0nJw2.FEx@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan13.023535.13045@shearson.com> <C0wpF7.8EB@newcastle.ac.uk> <mcdermot-200193081625@138.242.64.152> <1993Jan21.090624.27977@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:58:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.090624.27977@ulrik.uio.no>, solan@smauguio.no (Svein
- Olav G. Nyberg) wrote:
- >
- > Steven McDermott on brains in bottles:
- > |> Of course, if objective reality did exist, it might change and take our
- > |> perceptions along with it. If everyone perceived the change would that
- > |> count as evidence?
- >
- > "Everybody"? If you're a brain in a bottle, you normally don't
- > consider the existence of other brains in bottles.
-
- The whole premise behind the brains in a bottle argument is that you don't
- know you are one. You still "seem" to interact with others and "reality" as
- if you were a person and not a bottle-brain.
-
- Does anyone know of a logically consistent counter argument to the
- brain-in-the-bottle argument?
-