The Boltzmann brain paradox - Fabio Pacucci
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How do you know you’re a person who has lived your life, rather than a just-formed brain full of artificial memories, momentarily hallucinating a reality that doesn’t actually exist? That may sound absurd, but it’s kept several generations of top cosmologists up at night. They call it: the Boltzmann brain paradox. Fabio Pacucci explores this mind-numbing thought experiment.
What of the following objects is more likely to be formed by random thermal fluctuations of particles: a small flower, a human brain, or a galaxy? Why?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Fabio Pacucci
- Director Skirmanta Jakaitė, Art Shot
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Skirmanta Jakaitė
- Art Director Skirmanta Jakaitė
- Composer Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer Amanda P.H. Bennett, cAMP Studio
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Producer Anna Bechtol
- Associate Producer Abdallah Ewis
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
