> IIRC, the latter imagines a literally brain being formed briefly out of matter. I see. FWIW I think that is a very narrow reading of the Boltzmann brain hyp

> IIRC, the latter imagines a literally brain being formed briefly out of matter. I see. FWIW I think that is a very narrow reading of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis and while it may have been true to when it was first presented, I think the general "brain as abstract relations that can be simulated by physical systems" Boltzmann brain is what most contemporary cosmologists are talking about.