Are we Boltzman brains?

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The double slit experiment of quantum mechanics demonstrated by delayed choice that independent observation of one entangled particle collapses the wave function for the other particle, which means that the information can travel back in time or the future can effect the past. Now consider a Boltzman brain, a hypothetical mind that, given enough time, could spring into existence due to certain quantum fluctuations. Given the fact that the likelihood of a Botlzman brain coming into existence is actually greater than a human mind coming into existence, how do I know that I’m not a Boltzman brain? If a Boltzman brain could collapse the wave function, then this means that mind controls the whole history of the universe which would lead to me? So it’s paradoxical or a loop, some sort of recursion? The universe leads to me and I lead to it? How do I know mind isn’t the only thing that exists?
 
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How do I know mind isn’t the only thing that exists?
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My not deeply philosophical idea is that 1. Mine is not the only mind because I get information from outside my mind that mine could never have come up with on its own, and 2. Mind is not the only thing that exists because we can communicate points of agreement about what is outside our minds.
 
I don’t think so, because we ask questions and the answers come from outside our minds.
 
Even if we were—what would it change in your day to day existence?
 
I Boltzmann brain couldn’t be all there is it it begins to be by quantum or thermal fluctuations.
And retrocausality hasn’t been demonstrated. It’s speculation.
 
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Given the fact that the likelihood of a Botlzman brain coming into existence is actually greater than a human mind coming into existence, how do I know that I’m not a Boltzman brain?
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Likelyhood? That’s quite the unproven assumption.

Plus? If you cannot prove it one way or the other … then it’s nothing to concern oneself over, yes?
 
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A logician and a solipsist went into a bar. They sat down with their beers, and the solipsist dreamily declared to the logician, “None of this is real, I am imagining the whole thing, even you. It’s all just a part of my dream.” The logician thought for a second and then delivered a hard punch to the solipsist’s nose, a punch so hard that the solipsist fell backwards off of his barstool. “Ow!” cried the solipsist as he sat on the floor, “Why’d you do that?”

“I dunno,” replied the logician, “you tell me; it’s your dream.”
 
YHWH_Christ said:
The double slit experiment of quantum mechanics demonstrated by delayed choice that independent observation of one entangled particle collapses the wave function for the other particle, which means that the information can travel back in time or the future can effect the past
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The Afshar experiment shows that this interpretation is not valid.
 
If only mind existed, there could be no death, because that makes mind contingent upon physical conditions.

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YHWH_Christ said:
The double slit experiment of quantum mechanics demonstrated by delayed choice that independent observation of one entangled particle collapses the wave function for the other particle, which means that the information can travel back in time or the future can effect the past.
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YHWH_Christ said:
The double slit experiment of quantum mechanics demonstrated by delayed choice that independent observation of one entangled particle collapses the wave function for the other particle, which means that the information can travel back in time or the future can effect the past. Now consider a Boltzman brain, a hypothetical mind that, given enough time, could spring into existence due to certain quantum fluctuations. Given the fact that the likelihood of a Botlzman brain coming into existence is actually greater than a human mind coming into existence, how do I know that I’m not a Boltzman brain? If a Boltzman brain could collapse the wave function, then this means that mind controls the whole history of the universe which would lead to me? So it’s paradoxical or a loop, some sort of recursion? The universe leads to me and I lead to it? How do I know mind isn’t the only thing that exists?
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From my understanding, the consciousness of a brain doesn’t really have anything to do with the collapsing of a wave function. However, there are no shortage of articles on the internet claiming this by extending the meaning of the word observation
 
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