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

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Are You an Observer of a Bolsman Brain?

I'm perfectly happy to consider universes that have lots of boltsman brains in them, because i can just say, i'm not one of them. That is their move with thi zerographic distribution. Ok, here is why i don't think that works. I really do think that it's cheating. And the reason why its cheating is a slightly more nuanced comes from slightly more nuanced understanding of what you mean by aboltsman brain. So are you an observer that is literally in exactly the microscopic state that you personally are in? Now? So what's in your brain? All the things you're seeing with your eyeballs, they're really there. But the point is,

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