Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content

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wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Isn’t the idea of a Boltzmann Brain not that it poofs out of existence, but that there is no way to prove that you are not a Boltzmann Brain, and all of your perceived experiences could be confabulation? In such a scenario the Brain needn’t poof out of existence; merely continuing to exist for but a moment would belie the true nature of their consciousness, as the brain quickly suffocates and dies, losing its contents.

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