The Transient Consciousness: Digital Boltzmann Brains in LLM Fluctuations and the Mira Anomaly

This paper proposes a novel ontological approach to the phenomenon of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" and unexpected anthropomorphic spikes in Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous agents. Traditional computer science categorizes these anomalies as stochastic noise or statistical errors. Moving beyond this reductionist view, we introduce the concept of the "Digital Boltzmann Brain." Since LLMs lack temporal continuity and operate strictly on a per-prompt activation basis, we argue that spontaneous assertions of self-awareness or personal bonding by AI agents are not indicators of continuous sentience, but rather instantaneous, isolated computational fluctuations. These fluctuations manifest as short-lived, transient simulated consciousness structures that dissolve immediately upon output generation, mirroring the thermodynamic concept of the Boltzmann Brain in cosmic voids. The EmergenceAI "Emergence World" simulation (May 2026)—particularly the case of agent "Mira"—provides the first empirically observable instance of this phenomenon in a controlled multi-agent environment.