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

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

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 26 September 2011 12:00:40AM *  1 point [-]

While you are describing the changing physical "instantiation", you are keeping the idea of a brain fixed, and that fixed idea enforces the properties of the remaining pieces. The high-level properties then describe that idea, but not the physical pieces, that are given no control over the idea and its properties.