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The Brain in a Vat and the Fourth Proposition: Why the Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Subject Exceeds Computational Sufficiency

2026-06-25

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A Large Language Model fabricated a reference to Ferenczi: plausible title, believable date, convincing page number, all false. Starting from this scene, this essay traces a genealogy from the Cartesian evil demon to the LLM as a technical realisation of the closed-cognition fantasy, and interrogates a presupposition shared, in different ways, by Putnam's brain-in-a-vat thought experiment, Bostrom's simulation tri...

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Literature Corpus work: 4776d968-3513-53f8-ba68-cf596be32171
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202606.1914.v1

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