#876: Trapped explain

[Cueball is on a corded wall phone.]

Cueball: Hello? 911? I’m trapped!

Cueball: It’s dark and I can’t see anything except these two distorted splotches of light!

Cueball: Help!

[Ponytail, a 911 operator is in an office, wearing a headset.]

Ponytail: Splotches of light? Your… eyeballs?

Cueball (over phone): I think that’s what they are! There’s meat everywhere!

[Focus on Ponytail’s head.]

Ponytail: …so you’re a brain.

Cueball (over phone): Yes!

Ponytail: Yeah, we all are. You’re not trapped. Use your body to walk around and experience reality.

Cueball: But everything’s just signals in my sensory cortices! How can I be sure they correspond to an external world?!

Ponytail (over phone): I’m sorry, but we can’t send a search-and-rescue team into Plato’s cave.