Brain in a Vat Paradox Solved
Imagine a brain in a vat hooked up to a computer. Imagine that brain, in the fake virtual world, but totally indistinguishable from the real world fall asleep and dream. Imagine the dream being completely indistinguishable from the 1st virtual world. Imagine that the dreaming brain falls asleep again within the dream and dreams again. Another level of indirection, another hidden layer, another barrier from “reality”.
Imagine that the observer of the first brain in a vat is simply dreaming that it is observing that brain in a vat. Imagine that that observer is itself a brain in a vat. Imagine an infinite recursion of observers observing brains in a vat, having dreams, etc. Where does it end ?
These kinds of problems demonstrate that reality is only INFORMATION RELATIONSHIPS, information transfers and interactions, information conversations, information transactions, that there is no external fundamental reality, that only the point like instantaneous events, interactions, action and reactions, only the instantaneous interactions of Mass-Energy with itself or other chunks of itself exist, can be perceived, can be decoded.
Then the box and reference system where said experiences are put, how they are sequenced into a narrative, how they are connected, delimited, along with their meaning in language and thought and feelings is an arbitrary configuration given by what memory content is present in the mind, what patterns it is programmed to recognize, what expectations of causes and effects have been programmed in the mind, how the mind imagines other people’s thought processes, reactions, and how they relate to the arbitrary invention and construction of reality in the mind.
The illusion of laws of physics, patterns, reality and repetitive patterns cannot hold and don’t hold anymore.
Reality is only the present picosecond of perception you have. All of our memory with all of its rules, patterns, understandings is essentially an invention, is essentially just a tool, that helps us navigate in time, through pain/pleasure circuits. But time is only instants, disconnected from the past and future (we connect the dots, but the dots aren’t connected, they are only connected in our minds), reality is only instantaneous perceptions, interactions, events. Nothing more.
It is not casual that the structure of the universe and reality presents us with paradoxes such as the Brain in a Vat and the Dream within a dream, are you dreaming or are you awake ? These paradoxes are trying to tell us something: they are trying to communicate the real essence of the universe.