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Originally Posted by pennywise121
at the moderate risk of turning this into a Cartesian philosophy debate, what if we are at the mercy of an evil demon (later made more PC as an evil genius) that can control our perceptions? (the Matrix in print only a few hundred years before the movies )
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What if we are? The real question should be what would you do differently? If your perceptions define your reality then you are at their mercy whether they are actually real or not. What does it matter if by refusing to eat your stomach sends signals to your brain letting you know it aches or if a computer sends those same signals? Would you refuse to eat in either situation? I don't think this is like a religious/god question, where if there actually was a god you might behave differently. If you actually had no stomach, but were still susceptible to the sensations of a stomach, what would you do?
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