Re:Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology t...
by dogma1138 on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:33PM
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I don’t think that we have the same definition of freaky.
As far as Boltzmann brains go then a classical Boltzmann brain can actually be disproven even without going into the debate if there is even unbounded amount of randomness in the universe.
As for quantum Boltzmann brains then it’s not again freaky and it heavily is dependent on how you take on physicality.
If you think that the brain is a quantum system then a Boltzmann brain can never be a duplicate of you due to the no cloning theorem.
If the brain is not a QM system but a classical one which is more likely to be the case then classical Boltzmann brains aren’t really possible in our universe.
Overall this is again a philosophical niche not really physics it’s a fun anecdote to ponder not something you should take on seriously.
Now if you want to take evolution as a random activity despite it not being random then we are all Boltzmann brains but again as a whole a Boltzmann brain does not provide any insight into fundamental natural law or useful heuristics for emerging properties so it’s not as much freaky as well pointless.
As far as Boltzmann brains go then a classical Boltzmann brain can actually be disproven even without going into the debate if there is even unbounded amount of randomness in the universe.
As for quantum Boltzmann brains then it’s not again freaky and it heavily is dependent on how you take on physicality.
If you think that the brain is a quantum system then a Boltzmann brain can never be a duplicate of you due to the no cloning theorem.
If the brain is not a QM system but a classical one which is more likely to be the case then classical Boltzmann brains aren’t really possible in our universe.
Overall this is again a philosophical niche not really physics it’s a fun anecdote to ponder not something you should take on seriously.
Now if you want to take evolution as a random activity despite it not being random then we are all Boltzmann brains but again as a whole a Boltzmann brain does not provide any insight into fundamental natural law or useful heuristics for emerging properties so it’s not as much freaky as well pointless.