Obscure Title of the Day

Reject universes that lead to cosmic brains“, Anil Ananthaswamy, NewScientist (18 February 2017). The last paragraph is fun, too.

“If a theory predicts that the overwhelming majority of observers are Boltzmann brains, then that theory is ruled out,” he says. But he thinks Carroll’s argument introduces an unnecessary mystique. “There is no need for fancy notions like ‘cognitive instability’.”

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