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The 'brain in a vat' thought experiment posits that a person is merely a brain receiving electrical stimuli indistinguishable from those a body would receive, which leads to global skepticism because it is impossible to distinguish stimuli representing the actual world from simulated stimuli.
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- Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org via serper
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- Brain-in-a-vat argument concept