David Kipping

Yeah.

All those memories could be... They'd be bullshit.

I just woke up.

I woke up this morning.

It's a little bit similar to Bolson Brains.

So Bolson Brains is the idea that

you know, over infinite time, you could just have random particles in space come together to make a brain.

It's incredibly unlikely, but like monkeys on a typewriter, there is a chance of that happening.

And that brain would have all of your memories.

It would, you know, all of the sensations you experience in this moment, but it would only live for a moment and then it would just randomly fall apart.

And if you run the calculation, there should be infinitely more of those than there should be things like us.

And so this is actually a problem cosmologists – some of them take it seriously.

Some of them think it's silly.

But it is a problem that you end up with this kind of ridiculous conclusion that none of this should be real if you follow this logical conclusion.

This is real.

There's no need for such consistency in that case, right?

There's no reason why if you're a boss and brain that randomly popped up, you could have total inconsistencies in your universe that don't make any sense because that would be actually a more likely random occurrence than everything follows a single thread.

So that, yeah, I tend to think that our lives are probably real.

There's not much more we can do about it.

But it's not really science because, as you said, it's indiscernible.