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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…
On the Time Orientation of Probabilistic Theories
Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli
An influential theorem by Satosi Watanabe convinced many that there can be no physical probabilistic theory with both non-trivial forward and backward transition probabilities. We…
Why you do not need to worry about the standard argument that you are a Boltzmann brain
Carlo Rovelli, David Wolpert
Are you, with your perceptions, memories and observational data, a Boltzmann brain, namely a fleeting statistical fluctuation out of the thermal equilibrium of the universe? Argume…
Princeton seminars on physics and philosophy
Carlo Rovelli
These are lectures notes prepared for a series of seminars I am invited to give at Princeton Philosophy Department in November 2024. They cover the conceptual structure of quantum…