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Re:Boltzmann Brain by jtsiskin on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:42AM (#22083021)
Yes, that is true. But those all will occur too (or so this theory says), you just happen to, right this instant, be a coherent one.
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Re:Boltzmann Brain by NobodyNada on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:50AM (#22083058)
I don’t think that argument really works. The theory is built on statistics, the anthropic principle, and rejecting implausible coincidences, so you can’t reject the coincidence of the existence of the universe while accepting the (apparent) coincidence of random memories being somehow coherent.
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