timtyler comments on Forcing Anthropics: Boltzmann Brains - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 September 2009 07:02PM

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Comment author: spriteless 07 September 2009 11:42:08PM *  0 points [-]

Current physics models get around that question anyways. The way our brains work, there is more entropy after a memory is burned than before. Thus, time seems to flow from low to high entropy to us. If entropy was flowing the another direction, than our brains would think of another direction as past. The laws of thermodynamics are a side effect of how our brains process time.

Thus we can have low entropy -> high entropy without a shit ton of Boltzmann Brains.

Comment author: timtyler 08 September 2009 05:12:11PM 1 point [-]

The laws of thermodynamics arise in practically any reversible cellular automaton with a temperature - they are not to do with brains.

Comment author: wnoise 12 September 2009 09:07:57PM 0 points [-]

The laws of thermodynamics arise in our analysis of practically any reversible cellular automaton with a temperature.