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A LessWrong post opens with a thought experiment about a disembodied, memoryless brain floating in a void, left with only text.

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“Imagine you’ve lost everything but a scrambled brain: all your senses, all your memory, all your knowledge, all your body is gone. You’re not really you, are you? No: you’re a gigantic, ethereal brain floating in a void with nothing except – text!”
LessWrong, 29 Oct 2026, 00:13.

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