Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
Hilary Putnam says that we aren&#x27;t.<p>Basically, if we really were brains in vats, then &quot;we are brains in vats&quot; couldn&#x27;t ever be true, because the referents of our discourse wouldn&#x27;t have any causal connection to real brains and real vats, and so it wouldn&#x27;t even be possible, if one were a brain in a vat, to think the thought or propound the proposition &quot;I am a brain in a vat&quot;, and so, it&#x27;s necessarily false that we are brains in vats.<p>ieas.unideb.hu&#x2F;admin&#x2F;file_2908.pdf