Loosely related: Some time ago I wrote a fictional story "History of Everything" about a "overlord of chaos" which is roughly similar to the Boltzmann brain, at

Loosely related: Some time ago I wrote a fictional story "History of Everything" about a "overlord of chaos" which is roughly similar to the Boltzmann brain, at least in its basic idea: http://profv.de/history/ http://profv.de/history/ However, I never thought that this strange idea could ever be part of a serious scientific discussion, let alone that such a discussion already happened more than a century ago.