The Boltzmann brain paradox - Fabio Pacucci

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The animation and character design in this one was uniquely good

A beautiful Paradox- "The brain uses itself to understand itself"

When I was younger I had a thought a bit like this. I didn’t know about entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe and thought that time was infinite. In that case, wouldn’t every single possible scenario that could ever be imagined and all variations of them inevitably come true by the nature of infinity? For example, in the far future there will be an identical video made on a planet identical to Earth and a commenter with an identical life to mine will have made this comment, except the comment would end in a period

The way this channel casually drops existential crises in me. Beautiful stuff!

Boltzmann’s logic of entropy to statistics to infinite universe - and the way TedEd illustrated it - gave me so much serotonin.

Kurzgesagt: I'm your only source of existential crisis. Ted ED: Hold my beer.

As a long-time (more or less) TED-Ed follower, this is the first episod which broke my brain! 🤯Also, yet another impeccable animation! 👏

Thank you TED for putting my continuing existential crisis into words, such that more can experience it.

How does Youtube have storage for all these videos

Now we are talking, This is the content I crave for! Boltzman ... what a guy Thanks TED!

It’s impossible to calculate the probability that we’re a Boltzmann brain because we’re using laws of thermodynamics, quantum physics, etc. that we could’ve just imagined

I like the idea that the afterlife is some form of long term memory

I’ve been very interested in The Boltzmann Brain hypothesis recently and this is just wonderful.

It would be so ironic if a Boltzmann brain randomly formed, hallucinating the experience of this exact video explaining the brain's own nature.

This is really interesting! I'd heard about the Boltzman brain, but I'd never considered it much. I was quite creeped out when you mentioned how much more likely it is than a real universe.

The artistry in this video makes an already enriching and super-interesting topic a beautiful experience to watch. Thank you for posting.

Whoever did the art for this should be commended; it's awesome

I applaud the animator hired for this video - exquisite interpretations of Boltzmann's thinking.

I have had such paradoxical thoughts since my teenage years, but I never thought that other people have this too 🧐