(April 1, 2014 at 3:22 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: This is the ultimate form of the God of The Gaps argument. And relies on pure hypotheticals:
Quote:A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos. The idea is named for the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), who advanced an idea that the universe is observed to be in a highly improbable non-equilibrium state because only when such states randomly occur can brains exist to be aware of the universe.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
I used "Boltzmann Brain" in its most generic sense. Here's a simple and compelling explanation (offered previously on this thread). The human brain is a mass of "wired" bioelectrical energy, contained in a mass the size of a loaf of bread. A Boltzmann brain is organized wireless energy, contained in a parallel universe of infinite size or else within the dark energy and matter of our own universe, where this could also be of infinite size. If one makes the effort to understand the Boltzmann brain concept, one concludes that it is a certainty that such entities exist in an infinite multiverse.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA