Aren’t we all?
Thinking about it? Sometimes.
Me: please brain I just wanna get stuff done today.
Brain: no, now go find that one part of Old World Blues where you talk to your brain.
do human brains have a recursion depth limit?
Linguistically: yes, and it’s typically attributed to a working memory constraint.
The quotes make it feel like it’s being sarcastic about the suggestion.
Because those aren’t the literal brain, vat, etc.; those are the representations of those things in the brain’s conscience, hence the quotes.
It’s the same concept as The Treachery of Images, “This is not a pipe”
What is the human body but an over-engineered vat for our brains?
I’d like to consider myself a rat on a treadmill playing Doom.
At what point does the food in your body become you?
The cheeseburger of Theseus
But… this is not a brain in a jar (nor a pipe).
My brain floatin’ in my skull thinkin’ about vat brains.
Plato’s brain in a jar
