Brain in a Vat
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Can the Brain Move the Vat in Hand?
In these thought experiments, we can ask a lot of questions about the brain, but we also need to ask questions about the vat. Is vat literally just a passive physical object that contains the brain in the same way that my glass of water contains the water that i drink? Or is it something that is under the dynamic control of the brain itself? Can the brain move the vat in hand? It will never give you experience. To what extent is consciousness tied up with our ability to move? Ye, and i mean, this is what the field of embodied perception argues. And there is some research that shows that if you prevent subjects from moving their eyeballs, tha the field
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