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Normal_Anomaly comments on A boltzmann brain question. - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: DuncanS 25 September 2011 10:35PM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 25 September 2011 10:56:44PM 5 points [-]

There is of course nothing to stop us from continuing this. Suppose we have a one-quarter brain? Much more probable. One millionth? Even more probable. Maybe even single elements of a nerve cell? More probable still.

If the question is whether our conscious experience might be attributable to a Boltzmann thingy, the lower bound on the size of the thingy is the amount of brain it takes to be conscious. I haven't dissolved consciousness, of course, but I would be surprised if a single neuron could be conscious, no matter what state it was in.

Comment author: jman 23 July 2012 12:50:11AM 1 point [-]

Consciousness comes from many neurons working in unity, so one neuron could not create a consciousness.