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> What if you are a recurring sequence of Boltzmann brains pooping into existence, lasting mere seconds but correctly temporally sequenced as to form a continuo
by mr_toad 7y ago
> What if you are a recurring sequence of Boltzmann brains pooping into existence, lasting mere seconds but correctly temporally sequenced as to form a continuous consciousness?
This is similar to the premise behind the novel Permutation City, except that it’s not just one brain, but an entire virtual world.
- Filligree 7y agoAnd while fictional evidence is still only fiction, the way that book ends strongly hints that they got something crucial wrong. They weren't running "on dust", they were running in the simulation of some being that's particularly interested in universes that embed simulations of sapient beings. Such as their own, and then later the "experiment"...