It is the year 3007…
Brian had lived in a vat. His body was crushed, after a tragic car accident, but some quick work by surgeons had managed to save his brain. This procedure was carried out when such circumstances like this arises, so that the brain could be put back into a suitable donor.

But because there are more bodies than brains that terminally fail, the waiting list for a new body has gotten extremely long. However, to destroy brains that are able to be transplanted, was deemed to be unacceptable ethically.

One solution came from an Institution in China and its remarkable supercomputer, CH-199. Through electrodes attached to the brain, the computer could feed the brain stimuli which creates an illusion that the brain is living a normal life, in a real world.

So in Brian’s case, it meant waking up one day in a hospital bed, to be told about the accident and that he will make a full recovery. He then went on to live a very normal life. However, all this time, in the real world, he was nothing but his old brain in a container, wired up to CH-199. Brian had no more, no less reason to think he was living in the real world like you or I.

But this is a life where birth to death is calculated and put across for time to change…

What does being alive truly mean??

Poses interesting questions doesn’t it??

refer to Nick Bostrum’s www.simulation-argument.com for more if you want and this blog entry was adapted from my old philosophy note book