I often use the concept of Boltzmann brain to relax or fall asleep. Thinking that this is the only moment you will ever get to feel alive and you will die a few moments from now is a good way to put your mind “in the now”. That said, if it actually were true I would expect the reality I perceive to be radically different. Almost everything I know about the outside world is really consistent and ordered and everything I’ve ever experienced supports the mainstream physical model of the universe. I don’t think there would be an entire history of the universe and Earth and such, which I’m able to confirm relatively well by going into the museum and and considering the evidence, if this were just a random fluke. I would expect many things to be far more incoherent.
I still think there’s a low chance it’s true. Not really low chance, the chance is probably higher than the chance that I will win in a lottery or that biblical God exists. And this belief doesn’t have much decision theoretic importance so I would probably ignore it even if I knew for sure that it’s true.
Btw, how do you resolve the paradox that you can’t trust your own senses and reasoning?
You could plausibly argue that I am cheating with pronoun references (other people might agree with the solipsistic logic, but centered around them). Is that what you are asking?
This game assumes that users actually are real people because otherwise asking about their opinions would be pointless. But now that you explained it I decided to change my downvote to upvote because I think the probability of this being true is low.
I often use the concept of Boltzmann brain to relax or fall asleep. Thinking that this is the only moment you will ever get to feel alive and you will die a few moments from now is a good way to put your mind “in the now”. That said, if it actually were true I would expect the reality I perceive to be radically different. Almost everything I know about the outside world is really consistent and ordered and everything I’ve ever experienced supports the mainstream physical model of the universe. I don’t think there would be an entire history of the universe and Earth and such, which I’m able to confirm relatively well by going into the museum and and considering the evidence, if this were just a random fluke. I would expect many things to be far more incoherent.
I still think there’s a low chance it’s true. Not really low chance, the chance is probably higher than the chance that I will win in a lottery or that biblical God exists. And this belief doesn’t have much decision theoretic importance so I would probably ignore it even if I knew for sure that it’s true.
Btw, how do you resolve the paradox that you can’t trust your own senses and reasoning?
This game assumes that users actually are real people because otherwise asking about their opinions would be pointless. But now that you explained it I decided to change my downvote to upvote because I think the probability of this being true is low.