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____It was from my "gender doesn't matter" argument, which stated the user on the other end of the comp could be a man, woman, or even a disembodied "brain in a jar" with wires coming out of it.
____This is actually a derivative of a philosophical scenario in which a person's brain could be removed and kept alive outside their body, with wires from complex computers pumping false sensory data into it. This leads to the fear of whether or not they could not tell the difference between real reality and simulated reality. As an extension, this leads to the question of how do we know that it hasn't already happened, and that we aren't all brains in jars living in a fake reality? With the answer being that we could never tell, even if we were. :p
____As an example, they used a derivative of the "brain in a jar" scenario in the movie "the Matrix", but with the people having their whole bodies plugged in, rather than just their brains.