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Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)

New Books in Science

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You Love Boltsman Brain

You talk about simulation theory, some some of these, some of the ideas that you brackit off and say, i'm not going to deal with that. It's useful if you're writing science fiction, i think, or making interesting films. As far as i can see, there's nothing that we could ever do to make it provable to make. And so don't worry about it. You talk about the boltsman brain idea in ther somewhere as well. I think, ye love boltsman brain, which was originally brought up,. i think, much like shroding as cat, its one of those ideas that was used to actually underline the ridiculousness of a

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