Aren’t we all?
Thinking about it? Sometimes.
do human brains have a recursion depth limit?
Linguistically: yes, and it’s typically attributed to a working memory constraint.
Me: please brain I just wanna get stuff done today.
Brain: no, now go find that one part of Old World Blues where you talk to your brain.
The quotes make it feel like it’s being sarcastic about the suggestion.
Because those aren’t the literal brain, vat, etc.; those are the representations of those things in the brain’s conscience, hence the quotes.
It’s the same concept as The Treachery of Images, “This is not a pipe”
What is the human body but an over-engineered vat for our brains?
I’d like to consider myself a rat on a treadmill playing Doom.
At what point does the food in your body become you?
The cheeseburger of Theseus
But… this is not a brain in a jar (nor a pipe).
Plato’s brain in a jar
My brain floatin’ in my skull thinkin’ about vat brains.
