PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: David Chalmers, Simulated Reality, Philosophical Skepticism
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Responses to scepticism part i: david chalmers the matrix as. 4 part i: fundamentally deceived about the nature of our reality is shown in the movie the matrix . Envatted : being systematically fed a reality that isn"t real, in the sense that we normally mean it. (brains in vats) the matrix hypothesis threatens to undercut almost everything i know. It seems to be a skeptical hypothesis: a hypothesis that i cannot rule out, and one that would falsify most of my beliefs if it were true. [(1) brains in vats, (2) envatment reconsidered and (3) the metaphysical hypothesis: chalmers argues that we can"t know that we"re not a brain in a vat (or analogously, an. Envatted brain) and we can"t rule out that hypothesis. If we are in the matrix or in a vat the world would be no different about the way we experience the world now.
