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Consciousness is simply an illusion emergent of a Boltzmann brain configuration....
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RE: Consciousness is simply an illusion emergent of a Boltzmann brain configuration....
(April 9, 2016 at 8:48 am)Time Traveler Wrote:
(April 9, 2016 at 12:11 am)maestroanth Wrote: Hmm...I always interpreted the Boltzmann brain as sort of a metaphor for how "our" brains actually developed.  I.e. a statistical, but very interesting and somewhat rare instance of an entropy configuration. - I mean that's how I mainly view the human brain as. However if there is someone that is more keen on this Boltzmann philosophy than me, please correct me if explaining human brains like this wasn't part of his original intentions.

Anywho, that's the interpretation I've had when I made this thread topic.

The human brain is the product of about 3.5 billion years of evolution on this planet, starting with simple single-celled life and evolving into multi-cellular animals with central nervous systems run by, at first primitive, and then very complex brains. A Boltzmann brain (as I understand it) is an instantaneous coming together of matter due to random fluctuations which constructs itself into a complex brain in outer space, completely bypassing evolutionary processes.

Ah....okay. That's wild.
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RE: Consciousness is simply an illusion emergent of a Boltzmann brain configuration.... - by maestroanth - April 10, 2016 at 2:56 am

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