all knowledge is based on mental structures, not on “things in themselves”
Today I learned that Boltzmann once defended epistemic idealist arguments, I thought that was neat. I came across Boltzmann when I was 18 and I remember being mindfucked by the Boltzmann brain thought experiment, I still am in fact.
See also
- https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/dnpg4-wnf59
- https://useyourjudgment.substack.com/p/on-boltzmann-brains-unicorns-and
- https://authors.library.caltech.edu/records/5nj2j-mng35
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nous.12439
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phib.12353
- https://quantemplation.substack.com/p/boltzmann-brains-why-your-life-might
- https://albrecht.ucdavis.edu/special-topics/inflation-arrow-time
- https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/disentangling-the-boltzmann-brain-hypothesis-memory-entropy-and-time
- https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/boltzmann-brain
- https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v8MSczS3CuoqMmTFw/a-relatively-brief-explanation-of-boltzmann-brains
- https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/05/boltzmann-brain-paradox/
- https://www.lesswrong.com/w/boltzmann-brains
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemological_idealism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann
- https://danclark.org/blog/boltzmann-brain