jhuffman comments on Getting Over Dust Theory - Less Wrong

6 Post author: jhuffman 15 December 2009 10:40PM

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Comment author: jhuffman 16 December 2009 06:05:35AM 1 point [-]

Good point; I don't think there is a lot of difference between the two problem statements. Boltzmann brains may require a somewhat more complex structure, if that problem includes requirements for information processing while time passes. Dust theory doesn't really require such complex structures; just structures that have enough memory and state to perceive a passage of time and a processing of information.