2: How are you defining "density"? Do you mean the average number of Boltzmann brains within a given cubic area? — alan1000
But how could anyone possibly know the answer to that question?
Well, when we explore space, we don't see any Boltzmann brains, which suggests the density is very low (or we occupy a special place). — RogueAI
Making inferences from such experiences is only works if:
A. You are not yourself a Boltzmann Brain
B. We are not inhabitants of a Boltzmann Universe — Count Timothy von Icarus
This reliably asymmetric habit of nature provides the ultimate background with respect to which an attribute of one thing can exemplify an attribute of something else. The reason is simple: since non-correlation and disorder are so highly likely, any degree of orderliness of things typically means that some external intervention has perturbed them away from this most probable state. In other words, this spontaneous relentless tendency toward messiness provides the ultimate slate for recording outside interference. If things are not in their most probable state, then something external must have done work to divert them from that state.
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