I disagree with arguments of the form "My experience doesn't look like that of a Boltzmann brain, so I'm not a Boltzmann brain". If you were a Boltzmann brain, nothing you would think you know about physics or probability would actually be valid, nor would you have any capability to reason about the experience of a typical Boltzmann brain.
Perhaps the following definition can clarify the issue: say someone is "reasonable" if their experience correlates somehow with reality, and they have the ability to reason somewhat soundly (this concept was probably alre... (read more)
I disagree with arguments of the form "My experience doesn't look like that of a Boltzmann brain, so I'm not a Boltzmann brain". If you were a Boltzmann brain, nothing you would think you know about physics or probability would actually be valid, nor would you have any capability to reason about the experience of a typical Boltzmann brain.
Perhaps the following definition can clarify the issue: say someone is "reasonable" if their experience correlates somehow with reality, and they have the ability to reason somewhat soundly (this concept was probably alre... (read more)