Perhaps we are brains in a VAT, or living in the Matrix. The philosopher Robert Nozick turns this worry into a pleasure technology, imagining a virtual-reality machine t.

或许，我们是在瓮中的大脑，或是生活在矩阵里。

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Ultimately, the basic concept behind the machine is relatively simple: using five alternating petri dishes in borosilicate glass with a PDMS layer, on a moving VAT carrier.

最终，在机器后面的基本概念是相对简单：使用五个交替在硼硅玻璃培养皿用PDMS层，一个活动大桶载体上。

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Prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull the man out of the 8-foot deep VAT.

检察官的发言人詹森·劳克林说，他的一位同事试图关停机器而另外两个人试图把那个人从八英尺深的大桶内拉出。

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Ostensibly, a shift towards a gross profits tax relieves the operators of having to apply for Amusement Machine Licence Duty licences and having to account for VAT on their takings.

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