Yes, it is.
The Reader's Digest on it is, he attacked the philosophical argument re: Reality, and the argument was, 'How do we distinguish reality? What if we are just brains in vats, being fed stimulous so we only THINK we are humans with bodies, doing our thing, when the REAL reality is, we're just these
brains in vats?
So Poundstone countered by advising one to keep a book of limericks handy, and flip it open to a random limerick and read it....the theory being, one cannot invent a good limerick on the spot, it takes too long.
Therefore, according to Poundstone, our physical reality is exactly what we think it is.
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