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thisismyswamp | 2 years ago

A Boltzmann brain requires a similar underlying reality except with no evolution traceability for the brain's origin.

Not requiring a world around the brain does not make it more likely, but less, as the probability of brains given that worlds exist multiplied by the probability of worlds is still much higher than the probability of brains regardless of the existence of worlds

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criddell|2 years ago

You can’t even be certain that you aren’t a Boltzmann brain. If you could prove it (either way), it would be a publishable paper and could probably be the basis of a PhD for yourself.

weregiraffe|2 years ago

Boltzmann brain is just one of the theoretically infinite combinations of matter that can be randomly conjured out of the quantum chaos (with a very low probability). Our entire visible universe could be a "Boltzmann Universe", and we'd have no way of knowing it.