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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Boltswen Brain Problem

If you are a typical observer, right? A typical observer within exactly observers that have your data. So i can conclude nothing about the existence of eith future human beings or of alien gas bags on jupiter. I am not pretending to be typical within those sets. Therefore i can do no reasoning that gives me any armchair insight into whether or not these scenarios are legitimate. Probablity existing someone like me in a randomly fluctuating eternal universe is basically one right? In beng giving the local laws of physics,. eventually, someone like me will randomly fluctuate into existence - but it's a small probability. Even if you think that the probability of getting life somewhere in the universe is

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