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Anthropic Principle

Colin Wright
Oct 31, 2023
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Anthropic Principle

Colin Wright
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August 1, 2023

The "Anthropic Principle" is a philosophical concept that was posited by an astronomer and physicist named Robert Dicke, who noted that our observations about the universe must be limited to a specific collection of properties because we exist. In other words: that we are around to observe the universe implies the universe must have properties that allow…

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