16. How do you know that you are not a brain in a vat?
17. 2 Hypothesis 1. What you see around you is all virtual – An illusion. You are really a disembodied brain floating in water connected to a sophisticated super computer that generates perfect experiences as we know them What you see around you is real
18. What justifies that belief? In order to know something you need grounds for believing it. You must be justified in believing what you do. So in order to know that what you see is real and not virtual, you must be able to justify that belief. But it seems you cannot justify it. So, astonishingly, it seems you do not know that what you are now experiencing is real.
19. An astonishing conclusion A sceptical conclusion Sceptics claim that we do not know what we might think we know. The claim that we do not know anything about the world around us is called scepticism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ursdoT66JlU