The Brain in the Void: My Greatest Fear and the Boltzmann Thought Experiment copertina

The Brain in the Void: My Greatest Fear and the Boltzmann Thought Experiment

The Brain in the Void: My Greatest Fear and the Boltzmann Thought Experiment

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My biggest fear isn't spiders or failure—it's losing the memory of who I am. This leads us down a rabbit hole into one of physics' strangest thought experiments: The Boltzmann Brain. We explore the unsettling idea that, given infinite time, it's mathematically more probable for a random collection of molecules to spontaneously coalesce into a brain with a full set of fake memories (you, right now) than for the entire universe to exist as we perceive it. Is your life real, or just a fleeting instant of conscious space junk?

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