simon: the anthropic argument (ie, disapears after an instant) bit doesn’t seem to be sufficiently strong to solve the problem. Unless I misunderstood what your point, it would seem to fail to address the issue that I still observe far more order than would be necessary for me to exist even for, say, several hours or days.
I observe other people, I observe working websites, I observe that my memories of a chunk of reality seem consistent with my current observations of previously mentioned chunk of reality, etc etc...
How can I explain this? Clearly, the anthropic “bolzmann brains instantly go poof” is definitavely not strong enough for this. Unless we can show that of the worlds that don’t quickly kill the versions of me that they contain, the majority tend to be, for lack of a better term, “proper” worlds. But, It’s not entirely obvious to me why that should be so. Need to think about it some more.
simon: the anthropic argument (ie, disapears after an instant) bit doesn’t seem to be sufficiently strong to solve the problem. Unless I misunderstood what your point, it would seem to fail to address the issue that I still observe far more order than would be necessary for me to exist even for, say, several hours or days.
I observe other people, I observe working websites, I observe that my memories of a chunk of reality seem consistent with my current observations of previously mentioned chunk of reality, etc etc...
How can I explain this? Clearly, the anthropic “bolzmann brains instantly go poof” is definitavely not strong enough for this. Unless we can show that of the worlds that don’t quickly kill the versions of me that they contain, the majority tend to be, for lack of a better term, “proper” worlds. But, It’s not entirely obvious to me why that should be so. Need to think about it some more.