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The End of the Universe

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Are You a Hallucination in a Sea of Part Solids?

This is called the boltsman brain problem. If you hypothesise a universe that is eternally expanding in this, in this way, dominated by dark energy, which causes this accelerated expansion then it's much more likely that you are a brain hallucinating the entire history of the universe. And but eric, i wanted to know whether you are. Eric, are you more comfortable with the idea of of a solid physical reality in l a or being this hallucination in a sea of part solids? Yes, i think we are. I'll go for that. steve, what do you reckon? Just to say an infinite number of monkeys typing shakespeare,. is just a kind of

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