{"id":159818,"date":"2023-03-08T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/does-god-emerge-from-boltzmann-brains-in-the-fabric-of-reality"},"modified":"2023-03-08T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:24:41","slug":"does-god-emerge-from-boltzmann-brains-in-the-fabric-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/does-god-emerge-from-boltzmann-brains-in-the-fabric-of-reality","title":{"rendered":"Does God emerge from Boltzmann Brains in the fabric of reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-god-emerge-from-boltzmann-brains-in-the-fabric-of-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concept of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boltzmann_brain\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Boltzmann Brain<\/a> \u2014 a self-aware entity that emerges from random fluctuations in the fabric of reality\u2014 is intriguing. Perhaps God emerges from the evolution of a cosmic society of Boltzmann Brains?<\/p>\n<p>I am referring to a generic \u201cfabric of reality\u201d but the concept can be formulated more precisely. For example, imagine a conscious, thinking being arising from random quantum fluctuations in the vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>In the delightful \u201c<em class=\"\">The Gravity Mine<\/em>\u201d short story, Stephen Baxter imagines the birth of a Boltzmann Brain:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of Boltzmann Brain \u2014 a self-aware entity that emerges from random fluctuations in the fabric of reality\u2014 is intriguing. Perhaps God emerges from the evolution of a cosmic society of Boltzmann Brains? I am referring to a generic \u201cfabric of reality\u201d but the concept can be formulated more precisely. For example, imagine a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}