Is Democracy a Good Problem Solving Mechanism?

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Anita tomase says, how much credence do you give to the concept of boltmanian immorality? Particularly do those human brain like fluctuations called boltman brains, last long enough to give rise to any form of self consciousness at all? The idea is that if you live in a world where there are all sorts of random fluctuations, lasting forever, ok? You need both those conditions to hold. So we don't know if these fluctuations exist. And i actually, i don't know exactly what either one of those concepts would be, but i think it's a good opportunity to clarify some aspects of boltsman brain fluctuations.

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