rjf@eagle.UUCP (05/21/87)
Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <1181@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> cc_dgdc@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Clark) writes: > >You didnt really believe that Horizon BBC2 TV program about the >Four Anthropic (if thats how you spell it) Principles did you? >It said that the Universe was specially designed in order that >little man could come along and observe it to make it all real. >That we are the point of the Universe. Send for Nikolaus Copernicus >please. > Wha' d'ya mean believe? Call yourself open minded? Who needs to believe when they can get out of their ruts and *think about it*? Actually, the point I was trying to make (saying that the Anthropic Principles reduce to 'We observe, therefore we are, therefore we observe..[repeating]') is that they may be true without being significant. We *would* think that we were the point of the universe, wouldn't we? Even when being, in our own terms, absolutely objective. Unless we had some kind of would-be scientific prejudice to the contrary? Which may have been a very useful prejudice in its time, which is now beginning to pass? Just a thought. Robin rjf@ukc.ac.uk ..!mcvax!ukc!rjf