Brain in a Vat
Boltzmann Brain has given an idea of the thought about conscience, and that thing is connected to artificial intelligence and robotics. How we would not know that we are humans, not robots or aliens? How we can find out that we are not robots, what are connected to the computer, and what is living in the jar? "Brain in Jar" or "Brain in a Vat" is one of the most interesting ideas, what data philosophers have ever created.
The idea is that the brains would be inside the laboratory in the jar, and that thing is connected to the computer by using electrodes. So the idea is that those brains would believe that the computer simulation would be the reality. And in this kind of thought, the brains would be addicted to the data, what the computer would send to it.
And this brain would control the human-shaped robot. The thing is that the brains would believe that the robot, what it controls is it's the real body and the thing would be that this thing has brought an interesting idea in my mind. If we want to find out, are we some kind of simulations, we must just make something, what will uncover that thing.
But those methods are not nice, and if we would believe, that we are remote-controlled robots, we might not want to find that thing out. Because if we would harm ourselves, and our hypothesis will be wrong, that means sending ourselves to a mental institute. So, in this case, we might just leave this kind of thoughts to the horses, because they have a bigger head.
What if we would live in a closed laboratory, and all our connections to the outer world would happen through the computer. How that affect our way to think?
When we are thinking case, that we would control some kind of robot, which operates outside of the house, where we would stay. We must be sure that the things, how we would act in that kind of case might not have a difference between things, what we are making now. The thing is that this kind of idea is nice to think about. They are giving models to handle the truth and other things like knowledge and conscience.
They are handling also questions, what is the reality? I reality thing, what is existed in the real world, where we are moving and working. Is it only material? Or is it something deeper? When we are thinking about those brains in a jar, we must realize that the reality of those brains is filtered by computer. Those brains would think that the computer simulation would be real if that creature ever visits outside of the laboratory.
For those brains, the entire reality is the thing, that the computer would show them. And this thing has been caused a hypothesis about children, who are sitting in the movie theater, and only films, what those creatures would see are some "Star Wars-movies". What kind of stories those persons would tell to others? This is one version of Plato's cave, where creatures would see the shadows on the walls. For those people, the things, that they are seeing is the only reality.
Is Virtual Reality the modern version of Plato's cave?
Could that thing happen in the military bases like Cheyenne Mountain, where is not even window to out? The only data that those people will get is data, which comes from the screens. So could Cheyenne Mountain the next-generation version of Plato's cave? That thing causes interesting ideas in the mind of people. What kind of thoughts we would have if we would see only the data that computers send to our home?
If we are looking at virtual reality all of our lives, we would think that this thing is the real world. And a couple of thoughts brought in my mind. What if we would sit at the front of the computer screen for the rest of our life? How that thing affect our thoughts and to see things?
What if we would turn our homes to Plato's caves? Would we get more qualified data in that case, that our all contact to the outer world is the computer screen, what we can use in the same way what we use it in the real world? What that thing would do to our minds? Those things are a really interesting way to think about conscience and reality.
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