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AMA | September 2021

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

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What Is the Probability of Life Forming?

We already know we're here. This is what basians call old evidence. We shouldn't count it again. There's no theory we should be paying attention to tha dicts we're not here, right? That we we've already taken into account the fact that we're here whenever we do any of this reasoning about anything. So our existence, i would argue, counts for strictly nothing when we're talking about the different probabilities of different theories of the universe. And the answer will bebe small, if the original number is sufficiently tiny.

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