Are We All Just Boltzmann Brains?

If you scour the Internet long enough, or happen to catch any of the amazin PBS Spacetime episodes in a random Youtube K-Hole, or you’ve studied theoretical physics, you’ve no doubt come across the idea of the Boltzmann Brain.

I don’t know whether it’s the concept, or the name, or both, but even for me, whose not a person to indulge in too much in queries that have rather famous reductio ad absurdum arguments attached to them, there’s something mystically compelling about the idea.

You can find it just about anywhere, but just to summarize, the Boltzmann brain is a hypothetical, yet statistically viable result of a finite, but very long running series of random particles configurations of any number of the given particles in the universe. The idea is that eventually, however improbable, the particles will eventually “stick together” in just the right way such that they will form a functioning brain, somewhere in space, that has not only the capability to experience the human condition, but also just happens to be equipped with an entire array of falsified human “memories”

Yes “Huh?” you are asking? Given the already astounding molecular complexity of the human brain, even randomly assembling a human brain seems itself an impossible feat, let alone allowing to have fully formed memories. If you have any background in how memories form…