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200 | Solo: The Philosophy of the Multiverse
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Principle of Typicality Is Presumptuous
The assumption that you are a typical observer has given you enormous leverage over what the rest of the universe is like, without going out and looking at it. The point is that typicality is actually presumptuous. And if we can't assume that we're typical, then how do we make predictions? How do we use anthropic reasoning at all? Can we use it at all? So there are a couple of different solutions to this,. am and i want to talk about one solution that i don't like because it's a little tempting a but i really want, i want to disagree with it.
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