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Disentangling Boltzmann brains, the time-asymmetry of memory, and the second law
David Wolpert, Carlo Rovelli, Jordan Scharnhorst
Are your perceptions, memories and observational data, a statistical fluctuation out of the thermal equilibrium of the universe, having no correlation with the actual past state of…
Stochastic Process Turing Machines
David Wolpert, Jordan Scharnhorst
Computer science theory provides many different measures of complexity of a system including Kolmogorov complexity, logical depth, computational depth, and Levin complexity. Howeve…
Boltzmann Bridges
Jordan Scharnhorst, David Wolpert, Carlo Rovelli
It is often stated that the second law of thermodynamics follows from the condition that at some given time in the past the entropy was lower than it is now. Formally, this conditi…
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology
Jordan Scharnhorst, Anthony Aguirre
There is a paradox in the standard model of cosmology. How can matter in the early universe have been in thermal equilibrium, indicating maximum entropy, but the initial state also…