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Ultimately it comes from René Descartes and it's kind of surprising how little it's changed in the face of how much the world has changed
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I don't think so, this is not a brain in a vat being fed sensory input but brain and vat and universe being simulated. I think you'd be hard pressed to find something like it prior to the invention of computers, though I half expect Quatrarius to come prove me wrong.
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