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Another more radical brain-in-a-vat hypothesis that is left unscathed by semantic externalism is that I am a brain in a vat whose experiences are randomly caused by a supercomputer: there are no systematic causal connections, for example, between the computer program features and my recurring ˜treeish™ experiences.

Dr. Nishad 2009

Perhaps the content is something like this: the program feature that causes ˜treeish™ experience is associated with a program feature that causes experiences that are qualitatively indistinguishable from normal experiences that represent objects as being green.

Dr. Nishad 2009

One was blond, one dark-haired; the blond had a slightly receding chin that gave his face a meek look from the nose down; the dark one had once had a bad skin problem and his neck was treeish, giving him an air of stupidity, as if a face had been pasted on the front of the neck with no room for a head at all.

Changed Man and the King of Words Card, Orson Scott 1979

There is no theme, so any treeish blog post, podcast, photo, poem, video, or other digital contribution is welcome.

Roundrock Journal 2010

˜treeish™ experiences play a causal role vis a vis the BIV's uses of ˜tree™ that is analogous to the causal role played by trees vis a vis a normal human's uses of

Dr. Nishad 2009