Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

The Self-Undermining Trap

1:09:53–1:11:17 · 84s

Elga introduces his new Boltzmann brain paper via a vivid 'bad memory' analogy, showing how believing you’re a Boltzmann brain undercuts the very reasons for believing it—an instability that bounces you between positions.

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