BIV

biv English Noun ? en philosophy en w:brain in a vat. en 2014 Andrew Cullison The Bloomsbury Companion to Epistemology Bloomsbury 9781472585783 131 https://books.google.com/books?id=fazbBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22the+BIV%22&hl=&cd=1&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22the%20BIV%22&f=false Thus, although the BIV is in fact in an otherwise-empty world, it has experiences as of interacting with other people and with things in the environment, just as you do.