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AMA | April 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

The Anthropic Principle Is Not Rigorous

I think t at there is something there, some intuition that is being pumped a by this idea that they find that the constants of nature seem finely tuned. But it is not a rigorous argument. What do you do when you don't have a rigorous argument, but you have some intuition? So one attitude to take is, ye, i don't trust that argument at all. I'm not going to believe it. That's ok. You're alowd to have that attitude. But the problem is, you'll soon discover that many, many things that we are very successful at using are not on au rigorous foundation. The other extremist attitude is to say, you know, it's

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