Everything you know about physics and formation of clusters of matter is just part of the false-history that the Boltzmann brain experiences. For purposes of the thought experiment, assume the least convenient universe—pure randomness. It just so happened that your entire set of memories came into being, experienced this millisecond, and then will dissolve.
Behind this is the idea that there is no perception of the actual present. Each unit of experience (minimum time-slice) is entirely memories, plus inputs at least a few hundred milliseconds old. The next time-slice is connected by our perceptions, but in a BB, there would be no next time-slice, just the one.
It doesn’t survive. It exists just long enough for you to have one atomic moment of experience, then dissolves. Continuity, causality, and movement through time is an illusion caused by happenstance of the memories that are part of this ephemeral random configuration.
Well the Boltzman Brain idea is deep into the Solopsistic corner of simulation-like hypotheses, so “we” is just as unproven as anything else in my instantaneous experience of memory.
My point is that the concept doesn’t require continuity or persistence. Experience feels continuous, but as far as anyone can tell, that mechanism is via memory and brain-state. And brain-state does not imply that the only way to get that state is via a sequence of changes—perhaps it comes into being instantaneously by luck (or by some agency that’s irrelevant to the thought experiment).
Everything you know about physics and formation of clusters of matter is just part of the false-history that the Boltzmann brain experiences. For purposes of the thought experiment, assume the least convenient universe—pure randomness. It just so happened that your entire set of memories came into being, experienced this millisecond, and then will dissolve.
Behind this is the idea that there is no perception of the actual present. Each unit of experience (minimum time-slice) is entirely memories, plus inputs at least a few hundred milliseconds old. The next time-slice is connected by our perceptions, but in a BB, there would be no next time-slice, just the one.
how would it survive even for a second or just form without dying first?
It doesn’t survive. It exists just long enough for you to have one atomic moment of experience, then dissolves. Continuity, causality, and movement through time is an illusion caused by happenstance of the memories that are part of this ephemeral random configuration.
okay, but unfortunately we can’t help but to talk with our human categories, so do you think it should appear for a moment and then dissolve?
Well the Boltzman Brain idea is deep into the Solopsistic corner of simulation-like hypotheses, so “we” is just as unproven as anything else in my instantaneous experience of memory.
My point is that the concept doesn’t require continuity or persistence. Experience feels continuous, but as far as anyone can tell, that mechanism is via memory and brain-state. And brain-state does not imply that the only way to get that state is via a sequence of changes—perhaps it comes into being instantaneously by luck (or by some agency that’s irrelevant to the thought experiment).