Boltzmann brains are analogous to the intelligible books in Borges finite library.

Why do we talk about brains when simpler objects would be just as numerous and far more probable, that which brains might require to come into being the way they have? A Boltzmann brain is a place holder for any an all possible objects and their corresponding probabilities in the timeless entropy soup, including the total serendipitous arrangement of the universe itself.

Given that the universe is always far weirder than one can possibly imagine, there is bound to be unforeseen or new interactions near the end state which will happen when nothing is there to see it.

I like the idea of spontaneous reset.

...how can a infinite consciousness experience infinity from a relative point, if it experiences all the points? — Asktheshadow

Depending upon which unit we use to measure the coastline of England, the kilometer, meter, the centimeter, the femtometer with respect for accuracy and precision, the end values change. At some point it is impractical and useless to choose a unit that isn't useful. No one could ever measure the coastline by planck length, but it it were possible the length coastline of England would contradict its practical length.

I struggle to make this coherent but maybe when dealing with infinity, things need not be coherent (maybe infinity's semantic neighborhood includes words like contradiction, incoherence, impossibility, unlimitedness, endlessness, et cetera).

I borrow this idea from Borges story. Most of the information library is incoherent relative to the finity (limit, end, terminus) that is the reader. In the absence of a reader, or being, there is nothing (infinity or noumenon). Even if we are to concede that the universe exists without observers, so what, it is only meaningful relative to the what imposes or receives meaning upon it.

This recalls the grand drama of GOT with its horrendous acts like the Red Wedding and the Sept of Balor.

House of Cards is also another, where a brutal Machiavellian agent is lauded in someway as an an immoral antihero. By virtue of being free of moral constraints, accepting whatever the consequence may be, such elite figures move forward, conquer and reshape the world via cunning acts of murder.

"History is a bath of blood." William James

Some of us harbor re-sentiment against the performative power of knowing as it is expressed via elite figures here. It's comparable to the performative power of being rich, or having functioning kidneys.

If that resentment is akin to a flame and it happens to exist next to a powder keg, then an explosion may occur.

Events of mass killings as reported through the news remind us of our own resentment, however irrational, absurd or unfounded that resentment might be.

Sounds like you've read J.L. Borges the Library in Babel

His library is finite but the number of books (all possible combinations of letters) would exceed the number of estimated atoms in our universe by a tremendous magnitude. You could travel among recognizable copies of Moby Dick for your lifetime.

One of the imaginary librarians speculates that all is needed to reproduce this finite library is a single volume, since all books are limited to 26 letters and whatever the repeating format is.

I wonder what silly number the permuted arrangement of periodic elements would give us, given the amount of atoms there are in the universe.

Infinity has no meaning if we are finite creatures. Infinity also has no meaning if we are infinite creatures, because it's all relative to the scope of what we experience, whether we agree upon finity or infinity as a qualitative description.

In an infinite world maybe contradictions are permitted. The meaningless is meaningful. Infinity is finity, et cetera.

Wosret is suffering from time bias.

I wish I could live for the future (investing more for retirement) or in a better future (where I own a self-flying personal transport).

Insofar as I'm only eating meat 2 days out of the week, comprising at most 3 meals, I'm living for a future of diminishing green house gas emissions.

I'm trending toward veganism. If I ever reach such a transcendental state my being well glow with an aura of purity and self-righteous power. All meat eaters will cower in annoyance by my eternal presence as pronouncement: Soylent Red is animals!!! My astral body will be able to project itself into the future and I will be: A Vegan in the Future.

"I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Two pence a week, and jam every other day."
Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me – and I don't care for jam."
"It's very good jam," said the Queen.
"Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate."
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday – but never jam to-day."
"It must come sometimes to 'jam to-day'," Alice objected.
"No, it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
"I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing!" — Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass

What I meant to say is that I'm a Vegan in some Pasts, Vegan in some Futures but never Vegan Today. If only Today were Tomorrow, the Future would be Now and so... (I'm done).

Mr. Mayor was at the front of a hopeful coup that would undermine the the monetary investment in the PF.

I wonder what kind of historical parallels this might dredge up.

The act of a single person destroys the value of a business by some non-illegal means.

This is same as the copycat suicide effect.

The question is how do we limit such news events without interfering with freedom of the press.

I don't think a belief in hell deters criminal acts in the absence of a valued peer group that promotes such a belief. Anyone who is pushing hellfire and damnation is not a part of my peer group. Not being recognized or valued, as part of a social unit, is also part of the problem.

The United States suicide belt is explained as comprising mostly 'lonely white men with access to guns'.

I think the errors (variants) of thought ( via cultural evolution) can be some way compared with the errors (variants) required for natural selection.

One might think of an error on the part of natural selection as a genetic variant that cannot pass on its genes.

Compare it with an error of thought (an irrational belief) that is selected for by a group. Just because the belief might be false doesn't mean it doesn't have a useful effect with regard to some larger perspective.

There are nigh countless reasons why a thought, idea or belief might be selected for.

They bought the PF for $ 20k!!!

I doubt they've recouped their investment since the transaction and the slow upkeep doesn't bode well for site activity in the future. Is there some ulterior business model at work that doesn't involve ad revenue?

Usually a complex system in biology does not survive or even evolve unless there is a way this benefits the organism. — darthbarracuda

You're including any type of evolution (change) that doesn't harm the organism in this statement, which is to say that some heritable changes are neutral with regard to replication but not to other future states of being.

The "benefit of the organism" is dubious phrase here because we're left wondering who or what benefits like a self-aware human does, that a creature is able to register in some way the benefits of natural selection, (we have to frame the question, who or what benefits).

What if for instance there is a situation in which our behavior is determined by a vastly greater mind, ie. an Artificial Intelligence, always to "our" benefit?

Or take the domesticated cow for a different example.

Cows replicate with the help of humans, we use their milk meat and in exchange provide them food, shelter, healthcare and protection from the elements for a while. However, many would hesitate to proclaim that this particular model of mutalism (if that) benefits the cow. Further we may even argue whether a surplus of beef benefits us humans due to our tendency to overeat, or green house waste or other issues.