The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: An Animated Thought Experiment About the Hallucination of Reality

The Boltzmann Brain Paradox: An Animated Thought Experiment About the Hallucination of Reality
The Marginalian - Maria Popova • 52d

A pleasingly disorienting foray into the fundamental perplexity of life. You look at a tree. That tree is reality — part of some external reality, and partial to some internal reality of its own. But the tree you see is entirely your mind’s rendition of reality. Consciousness is both the projector …

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