{"id":164989,"date":"2023-06-02T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/philosophy-portal-brain-in-a-vat"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:22:24","slug":"philosophy-portal-brain-in-a-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/philosophy-portal-brain-in-a-vat","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Portal: Brain in a Vat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/philosophy-portal-brain-in-a-vat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where every conceivable facet of your reality is nothing more than sensory experience devoid of any real meaning; And that your emotions, organs, and even your closest relationships were nothing but pleasurable impulses being transmitted directly into your brain.<\/p>\n<p>This is the hypothesis posited by the Brain in a Vat theory. If an evil scientist (or rich transhumanist, whichever you prefer) were to take your brain, submerge it in a jar or vat of nutrients, in theory, you could be force fed the information you process on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>If your neurons were connected to some type of hardware and\/or software that could continuously provide the necessary stimuli, you\u2019d be ripe for this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world where every conceivable facet of your reality is nothing more than sensory experience devoid of any real meaning; And that your emotions, organs, and even your closest relationships were nothing but pleasurable impulses being transmitted directly into your brain. This is the hypothesis posited by the Brain in a Vat theory. If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}