A warped theory

[Kaleb]

ok so I was thinking that what if the superherohype was just a big fraud , I mean what if you ppl dont exist and its just a huge computer mainframe that makes up thousands of identities and randomly posts comments or makes threads, leaving me to beleve that I am talking to someone out there.

 

[deathshead2]

ok so I was thinking that what if the superherohype was just a big fraud , I mean what if you ppl dont exist and its just a huge computer mainframe that makes up thousands of identities and randomly posts comments or makes threads, leaving to beleve that I am talking to someone out there.

Hello computer.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

ok so I was thinking that what if the superherohype was just a big fraud , I mean what if you ppl dont exist and its just a huge computer mainframe that makes up thousands of identities and randomly posts comments or makes threads, leaving to beleve that I am talking to someone out there.

What would the motivation be, for fooling you into believing the posters were people when they weren't?

 

[black_dust]

because even a computer cant act as dumb as some of you do.

 

[Tsunulia]

Stop before you break the server.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Brain in a vat

A thought-experiment related to solipsism, although in principle distinct (for one thing, it posits a real mad scientist, brain, and vat, which a metaphysical solipsist would dispute), is the brain in a vat. The person performing the thought-experiment considers the possibility that they are trapped within some utterly unknowable reality, much like that illustrated in the movie The Matrix. A mad scientist could be sending the same impulses to one's brain in a vat that one's brain (understood to be that of a person in the "real world") might receive, thereby creating "the world" as one knows it from the mad scientist's program. Yet, for one's brain in the vat, that "world" would obviously not be "real." This raises the possibility that everything one thinks or knows is illusion. Or, at the least, that one cannot know with any certainty whether one's brain is in the "real world" or in a vat receiving impulses that would create an equivalent consciousness— or even if there is a real world, mad scientist, brain, or vat (all experience could be simply a never-ending dream).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

 

[Sabretooth]

If that's true...who did I cyber with last night????!!!!!

 

[Tsunulia]

If that's true...who did I cyber with last night????!!!!!

Steven Hawking?

 

[Kaleb]

that would be deathlock

 

[SLVRSR4]

If computers could think up of things as funny as i've read here. I would marry mine!

 

[tzarinna]

No more shrooms for you