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Freak observers and the measure of the multiverse
I suggest that the factor in the pocket-based measure of the
multiverse, , should be interpreted as accounting for equilibrium
de Sitter vacuum fluctuations, while the selection factor accounts for
the number of observers that were formed due to non-equilibrium processes
resulting from such fluctuations. I show that this formulation does not suffer
from the problem of freak observers (also known as Boltzmann brains).Comment: 6 pages, no figures; references adde