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But this presupposes that consciousness is a mere instant. If I am conscious ‘now’ and maintain this State for Lets say 2 seconds, the chances of me being a bol
by moi2388 2y ago
But this presupposes that consciousness is a mere instant. If I am conscious ‘now’ and maintain this State for Lets say 2 seconds, the chances of me being a boltzmann brain pretty quickly drop to near 0
- lazide 2y agoAnd how could you actually determine if we’re actually in second 2, or actually in second 0 with knowledge/memories/sensory input which makes you think we’re in second 2? At some point it does boil down to faith that we aren’t in that scenario/it isn’t what is occurring. Philosophically, it’s hard/impossible to fully logic our way out of this kind of problem.
- moi2388 2y agoYou can’t, for a single point. My argument is that you don’t have consciousness for a single point. Thoughts take time, we have streams of consciousness. If I can determine a current point (I argue I can), with memories, then remain conscious for let’s say 2 seconds, the chance of me being a Boltzmann brain already dropped to almost 0. At any point you could say false memories were planted, but this assumes that I am only conscious in an instant, and merely remember previous states. Both research and my own experience seem to indicate it’s not this coherent, and we have a much longer instant of consciousness or ‘moment’. A Boltzmann brain only makes sense for particular instants thermodynamically, coherency is as good as impossible
- lazide 2y agoYou might want to re-read my prior comment.