Anthropic Bias
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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy is a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom. It investigates how to reason when one suspects that evidence is biased by "observation s
Anthropic Bias
Fine-tuned universe
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The fine-tuned universe is the hypothesis that, because "life as we know it" could not exist if the constants of nature—such as the electron charge or the gravitational constant—had been even slightly
Anthropic Bias
…it. This conundrum is sometimes called the "anthropic principle", "self-locating belief", or "indexical information". The book first discusses the fine-tuned universe hypothesis and its possible explanations, notably considering the possibility of a multiverse. Bostrom argues against the self-indication assumption (SIA), a term…
Timeline of the expansion of the universe, where space is represented schematically at each time by circular sections. On the left, the dramatic expansion of inflation; at the center, the expansion accelerates (artist's concept; neither time nor size are to scale).