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The brain in a vat thought experiment proposes that one cannot be certain they are not a brain being simulated in a vat by a computer program to believe it is experiencing the real world. The argument is that if one knows any beliefs about the external world, then one would know they are not a brain in a vat, but since we cannot know this for certain, we cannot truly know anything about the external world. While some argue we can know our hands exist based on senses, this does not actually prove we are not

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