After my brain has decayed, at some distant point in the future,

I don't think anyone has or can say that this hasn't happened. In all likelihood that's exactly what happens, and we're all doomed to repeat our lives eternally.

This is what I thought as well OP.

If the universe is finite, and the probability of such an event is so low, there may not be enough time in the universe for such an even to take place.

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The universe will last for x years. The probability of the described system occurring in a particular year is p. Therefore the chance of it NOT occurring over x years is (1-p)^x. As p approaches zero, the probability becomes (1-0)^x, or 100%.

Of course the chance of your scenario isn't zero, but it's pretty damn close. If x isn't large enough there is no doubt that such an event will almost never happen.

The probability is too low. Current knowledge of physics posits a beginning and an end to the known universe. The probability of such a specific fluctuation occuring within that time-frame within the confines of the known universe is virtually nil.

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>>7962313
Doesn't the heat death of the universe still allow for quantum fluctuations to take place?

Possibly. Possibly not. It's not testable, so all speculation is unscientific. It certainly isn't impossible, but I personally don't think it's probable.

>>7962331
I don't physics enough to know the answer, but I guess quantum fluctuations would occur as normal. However that assumes that the heat death of the universe will occur, and that isn't certain.

pretty cool concept, but i think that the brain has more order to it than the universe and would therefore be less likely. The universe has order in the forms of planetary systems, galaxies, nebulas etc. and this order is constantly decreasing. Life on the other hand creates localised order, which it not only maintains but increases. life is order created from the relative disorder of the universe.