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AMA | December 2022

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

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How to Escape the Boltzmann Brain Problem

The Boltzmann brain problem has been mentioned as something that would be a problem for the real world if we approach decider space. The temporary changes, or rather the sort of temporary constancy of the cosmological constant punctuated by phase transition changes, is possible but hard to make it work. It's just sort of more natural to stick with the constant cosmological Constant.

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