Why I Am Not a Boltzmann Brain

Philosophical Review 134 (1):1-33 (2025)
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Abstract

This article gives a Bayesian argument showing that, even if your total empirical evidence confirms that you have zillions of duplicate Boltzmann Brains, that evidence does not confirm that you are a Boltzmann Brain. The article also attempts to explain what goes wrong with several of the sources of the temptation for thinking that such evidence does have skeptical implications.

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Sinan Dogramaci
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Miriam Schoenfield
University of Texas at Austin

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