2025/01/01 by Sinan Dogramaci, Miriam Schoenfield · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Philosophy and History of Science #Philosophy and Theoretical Science
paper · doi:10.1215/00318108-11591068
This article gives a Bayesian argument showing that, even if your total empirical evidence confirms that you have zillions of duplicate Boltzmann Brains, that evidence does not confirm that you are a Boltzmann Brain. The article also attempts to explain what goes wrong with several of the sources of the temptation for thinking that such evidence does have skeptical implications.