RE: Consciousness is simply an illusion emergent of a Boltzmann brain configuration....
April 7, 2016 at 11:53 am
5) Just because something is logically possible doesn't prove its existence.
Boltzman brain?
Dunno.
Show me.
I've got my own (borrowed, stolen) worldview. The proposition that the ultra-verse is, or is not, infinite and random is unfalsifiable because we are limited in our investigations to probing only within the volume which is ordered. Getting farther out only yields garbage which could be everything else, but also might not. I'm open to arguments to the contrary, but failing that I have to conclude that the ultimate question and the ultimate answer are ultimately unanswerable.
Closer to home, I'm hoping that at my demise, there will be a sign in the sky which reads:
GAME OVER....to continue, press X on controller at which point I'll be able to start again from my most recent save point.
Boltzman brain?
Dunno.
Show me.
I've got my own (borrowed, stolen) worldview. The proposition that the ultra-verse is, or is not, infinite and random is unfalsifiable because we are limited in our investigations to probing only within the volume which is ordered. Getting farther out only yields garbage which could be everything else, but also might not. I'm open to arguments to the contrary, but failing that I have to conclude that the ultimate question and the ultimate answer are ultimately unanswerable.
Closer to home, I'm hoping that at my demise, there will be a sign in the sky which reads:
GAME OVER....to continue, press X on controller at which point I'll be able to start again from my most recent save point.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
