What if most conscious minds in existence never evolved - they just appeared out of nowhere?
Modern physics has a disturbing problem. The same equations that explain our universe also predict that the most common form of conscious observer isn't a civilisation. It's a random fluctuation of matter that briefly flickers into awareness and dissolves. This isn't science fiction. It's a genuine crisis at the heart of cosmology - and physicists can't solve it.
From inflationary cosmology to quantum mechanics to the anthropic principle, we follow the science all the way to the edge. What we find there changes everything about how you think about your own existence.
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https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...
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https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611158
Carroll, S. (2017). Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad. arXiv.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00850
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