Carl, thanks for the link, nice discussion going on there. Greg is right on track with the argument that DA etc fail because we are not sampled beforehand - there is no fact of the matter of who we are before we experience anything.
Although the discussion there is a bit too inimical to the Boltzmann brain (BB) idea: it does show serious flaws with current cosmology, maybe even deeper lying flaws in some other assumptions. Because of this heuristic value, exploring BBs is important IMHO. Cheers, Günther Carl Tollander wrote: > http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/06/urban_myths_in_contemporary_co.html > > Egan fans (and others!) may find this of interest. > > C. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
