Brain room

[Megan]

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Flop:

> Just a trippy sort of thought that's been bouncing
> around in my brain: What if they never WERE somebody's
> brains? I'm toying with this wild concept of the MoM
> developing sort of "free-standing" brains kind of as a
> data-storage thing like Wizard computer
> hard-drives?... Okay, that's wilder than it sounded
> before I typed it out. Any thoughts?...

"Megan" <skater314159 at yahoo.co.uk> replies:

I agree... I was thinking along the lines of the Epistemological 
Philosophy paper by Hilary Putnam "Brains in a Vat"... and all of 
the lovely epistemological implications that ensue from that... (I 
mentioned it in my Epistemology class - in Philosophy - and all the 
other students just stared at me, so I guess they don't know 
about/haven't read yet book five!)

Any thoughts eh?