Stupidly, I ask, what if our cosmos is a mental exercise of a/the Boltzmann Brain? I don't wish to invoke unicorns and dragons, but since this is a topic central to thermodynamics, cosmology, and even quantum mechanics, it makes me wonder. Perhaps a dead end for the intellect? But it does fit Glashow's "Crazy idea, but is it crazy enough to be true?"
-----Original Message----- From: meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 1:22 am Subject: Re: Do today's philosophers even think about the existence of God anymore? On 10/16/2014 12:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 15 Oct 2014, at 13:23, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Aha! Now what of Boltzmann Brains and how this topic is undervalued by the intellects here. The UD is more general than the Boltzman brain. It contains the web of all Boltzmann brain manifestation. There is no actual real "brains", even for a physicalist it is only first person symmetry breaking in the symmetrical universal waves of the (quantum) vacuum. My friend Greg will be relieved to learn that he didn't really have a brain to cause him trouble: Speaking as a former Cushing's Disease patient, I can 100% testify that this is true: And "change" doesn't begin to describe the warped, dismal, mind-crushingly wild things such a tumor can do to the body but in particular to the mind: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-seewald/our-brain-is-who-we-are_b_4100210.html Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
