Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

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At first blush, quantum physics offers a way out: some physical processes appear to be probabilistic, their outcome not known ahead of the time. An even wackier variant of this concept is known as the Boltzmann brain (BB). From this, we can argue that if you are a brain in a vat, your BIV-English can only describe concepts pertaining to the simulation.

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