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.
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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
