A single thread can be in a tapestry, but can’t be in the pattern of a tapestry. Once there’s the shape of a tapestry, there’s an attendant minimum thread count. No thread is necessary, but it takes many of them.
Blue is a big pattern. An atom can be part of something blue, but it can’t be blue.
I don’t think I’m less than much of a brain because I think. There’s a minimum requirement of parts.
And part of this problem is that the Boltzmann brain’s thought pattern is likely to be sheer random chaos, wheras we all here believe that our actual thoughts are not like that. It’s the organisation that requires the minimum set of parts to be expressed. But how do we know that this actually happens at all?
Thinking is a big pattern.
A single thread can be in a tapestry, but can’t be in the pattern of a tapestry. Once there’s the shape of a tapestry, there’s an attendant minimum thread count. No thread is necessary, but it takes many of them.
Blue is a big pattern. An atom can be part of something blue, but it can’t be blue.
I don’t think I’m less than much of a brain because I think. There’s a minimum requirement of parts.
And part of this problem is that the Boltzmann brain’s thought pattern is likely to be sheer random chaos, wheras we all here believe that our actual thoughts are not like that. It’s the organisation that requires the minimum set of parts to be expressed. But how do we know that this actually happens at all?