Am I or am I not brain in a vat?
This question is really the 64 million dollar question for philosophers, the real challenge. None, however, have ever been able to answer it. Why? Because no mind has ever expanded enough to fully grasp the truth behind the concept, if there is a truth of course. This means that in this essay I will not be able to prove that I am or am not a brain in a vat. Instead, I would like to look at the probability of either being or not being a brain in vat.
When watching movies or reading books about these kinds of situations, the characters go into a depression-mode, a sort of stage in their life where they don’t want to live in a lie. I can imagine the same thing happening to people, like me, who question their existence in- or outside of their TOK class. But when properly thought about, there is really no point to ending your life for the sake of living in this “lie”, because whoever is behind the creation of this virtual world, obviously, has a purpose for you. Therefore, he/she will not pull the plug on you, which basically means that no matter how much you want or don’t want you will always live in this world until you “die”. If that is, of course, what we really do!!!
