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by weregiraffe
904 days ago
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Boltzmann brain is just one of the theoretically infinite combinations of matter that can be randomly conjured out of the quantum chaos (with a very low probability). Our entire visible universe could be a "Boltzmann Universe", and we'd have no way of knowing it. |
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> The Boltzmann brain gained new relevance around 2002, when some cosmologists started to become concerned that, in many theories about the universe, human brains are vastly more likely to arise from random fluctuations; this leads to the conclusion that, statistically, humans are likely to be wrong about their memories of the past and in fact be Boltzmann brains. When applied to more recent theories about the multiverse, Boltzmann brain arguments are part of the unsolved measure problem of cosmology.