337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory
The Michael Shermer Show
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The History of the Universe Depends on the Question You Ask
The anthropic principle is a council of despair it is a negation of our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe on the basis of science yeah that's a cool one but you also have here another quote from hockey in the history of the universe depends on the question you ask now. It's almost like it's dependent on well what did hockey call that and and Len Milan now and the grand design model dependent realism reality depends on the model you're using rightYeah he never he never mentioned that to me the model dependent realism that quote when he told me it had everything to do with a sort of his his somewhat intuitive poetic oracle like way of describing the act of observation
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