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Lost in Translation with Shaun Stanley

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Empirical Equivalence

There is, at least for quite an empirical equivalence between the rabbit stage and the unattached rabbit part. So it's also a matter we could be in any world, but we can definitely inhabit millions of empirically equivalent worlds. And yet they might be different. They might say radically different things about our world. One might be about physical objects, the other might be about their cosmic confidence. I mean, perhaps one theory says we have to come to an end eventually. And another says that we don't. But I'm choosing the one that says we do.

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