Loew, Christian (2016) Boltzmannian Immortality. [Preprint]

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Plausible assumptions from Cosmology and Statistical Mechanics entail that it is overwhelmingly likely that there will be exact duplicates of us in the distant future long after our deaths. Call such persons “Boltzmann duplicates,” after the great pioneer of Statistical Mechanics. In this paper, I argue that if survival of death is possible at all, then we almost surely will survive our deaths because there almost surely will be Boltzmann duplicates of us in the distant future that stand in appropriate relations to us to guarantee our survival.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Loew, Christian
Keywords:	Personal Identity; Statistical Mechanics; Survival; Thermodynamics; Boltzmann Brains
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Depositing User:	Christian Loew
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2018 12:27
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2018 12:27
Item ID:	14455
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10670...
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1007/s10670-016-9842-6
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation General Issues > Ethical Issues Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Date:	8 October 2016
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14455

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