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Reminds me of the of the Boltzmann brain paradox: The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false
by rfugger 15y ago
Reminds me of the of the Boltzmann brain paradox:
The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of self-aware brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
- pohl 15y agoThank you for sharing that. I find it interesting that (from Wikipedia here) the paradox is based on the idea that "it is more likely for one instance of a complex structure to arise than for many instances of that thing to arise". What interests me about this is that a physicist is capable of such complex ruminations vis-a-vis self-awareness without indicating the slightest apprehension of self-replication.