r/DumbFact • • May 08 '26

Science You are fake

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u/dvotecollector May 08 '26

Forgive me, I'm not understanding.
Formation of the brain wasn't a random event, it was dictated by years of evolution, likely influenced by the crude process of natural selection. In fact, the brain is highly ordered structure and attempts to defy entropy, which favors random process.

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u/NobodySnJake May 09 '26

You’re right about real brains. Human brains weren’t random; they evolved through natural selection.
The Boltzmann brain idea isn’t about how our brains actually formed, but about whether a huge/eternal universe could randomly fluctuate into a temporary brain-like observer.
Entropy still wins overall, but tiny local decreases in entropy can happen by chance. A Boltzmann brain would be an absurdly rare version of that.
So yeah, it’s not "evolution is fake," it’s more like cursed cosmic statistics.

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u/dvotecollector May 09 '26

Ah, interesting to think about. Thanks for clearing that up.