What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.
In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...
Whether it is a beloved childhood recollection or the simple knowledge of what you had for breakfast, our memories often seem like the only things we can be certain of. But, according to a group of ...
Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your entire life story could be a physical fluke. The Boltzmann brain puzzle ...
Can someone tell me what is the opposite of a Boltzmann brain (29 March, p 46)? It seems to be a self-reproducing brain that arises through a copy-construction process, not spontaneously from thermal ...
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