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by passion__desire 1015 days ago
So, the reason why a Boltzmann brain would vanish almost instantly is because the longer it is to survive the more support structures it would need, a larger part of the local environment would have to be compatible with a longer existence, and all that makes it less likely for the fluctuation yielding such an outcome to have occurred.
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What's time to a boltzmann brain?
I don't remember the video, but it was pointed out by Sean Carroll that the idea of BB is not fleshed out. Does one need only neo-cortex, or full brain, or just few control centers of attention within neo-cortex to be called as BB.