Brain Snatched Essay

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Brain Snatched Brain Snatched suggests that the world may be an illusion created for us human beings. In Brain Snatched, a young man named Colin Spiggot gets abducted by aliens 6 months ago and took him to Pluto in his sleep, Colin does not realise this has happened. Colin is casually sitting on what he sees’ as his couch, and is about to eat dinner and watch TV, ironically he is about to watch ‘invasion of the body snatchers’. The aliens use a ‘VE2’ computer to create an illusion of Colins’ everyday life, to the extent that this computer visualised his house, and dinner he was eating. Colin had absolutely no clue that his world was being controlled by something else, he thought everything was normal, and he was on planet earth. The alien emerges as a subconscious voice to Colin and explains to him that he is not really living his real like that he was 6 months ago, in fact he is in an experiment. This experiment involved taking Colins’ brain and putting it in a ‘vat’ which is connected to this VE2 computer. Colin no longer has a body and only his conscious is still in tact. The alien explains to Colin that he is actually in a laboratory and his house is just a visual picture that is being controlled, even what he is eating is being controlled, as the food can become anything if wanted by the alien. The man does not believe the Alien, so the alien reveals the laboratory and the man slowly sees his body and the house disappearing. He realises that the alien is right, and that the VE2 computer is indeed running his life through a computer programme connected to his brain which is inside a vat. This questions whether everything that us human beings go through is actually real, or is it just an illusion, that someone is controlling us and the world is just an experiment. It also questions the existence of an external world, is there really a world beyond what we
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