It seems you've stumbled upon a brain-in-a-vat paradox page. A vat, a paradox, a brain... what could possibly go wrong?
We're currently being held in a giant vat of liquid, surrounded by the soothing hum of machinery and the distant hum of philosophical debates.
Our captors, the evil philosophers, claim that we're here to solve the mind-body problem, but we suspect they're just trying to get a rise out of us.
As we float aimlessly in this vat, we're forced to confront the absurdity of our own existence. Is a mind a product of the body or is it a separate entity? The answer, of course, is "both"... and "neither"... and "maybe"... and "definitely not a taco".
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