Boltzmann brain
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title:
Boltzmann brain
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The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did. Physicists use the Boltzmann brain thought experiment as a reductio ad absurdum argument for evaluating competing scientific theories. In contrast to brain in a vat thought experiments, which are about perception a
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Philosophical thought experiment
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2007-02-22T00:20:14Z
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2024-09-05T13:56:43Z
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