• wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Isn’t the idea of a Boltzmann Brain not that it poofs out of existence, but that there is no way to prove that you are not a Boltzmann Brain, and all of your perceived experiences could be confabulation? In such a scenario the Brain needn’t poof out of existence; merely continuing to exist for but a moment would belie the true nature of their consciousness, as the brain quickly suffocates and dies, losing its contents.

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      8 hours ago

      I’ve heard it both ways.

      It’s far more likely you aren’t a boltsman brain and that one has never existed.