• The anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the hypothesis that the range of possible observations that could be made...
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  • combined SSA+SIA "Anthropic Bias | anthropic-principle.com". www.anthropic-principle.com. Retrieved 2015-11-03. Nick Bostrom, Anthropic Bias: Observation...
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  • the "final anthropic principle" (FAP) in their 1986 book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle as a generalization of the anthropic principle: "Intelligent...
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    Multiverse (category Anthropic principle)
    models, cyclic theories, M-theory, and black-hole cosmology. The anthropic principle suggests that the existence of a multitude of universes, each with...
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    of multiple universes introducing a survivorship bias under the anthropic principle. The premise of the fine-tuned universe assertion is that a small...
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    the anthropic principle, while entropic hierarchy and holobiont arguments may possibly allow understanding the emergence of Gaia without anthropic arguments...
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    McMullin writing in 1994 that "the weak Anthropic principle is trivial ... and the strong Anthropic principle is indefensible." Since many physicists...
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    He also coined the term "Participatory Anthropic Principle" (PAP), a version of a Strong Anthropic Principle. In 1990, Wheeler suggested that information...
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    non-zero value was noted by Steven Weinberg in 1987 following the anthropic principle. Weinberg explains that if the vacuum energy took different values...
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  • case, and that many different vacua are physically realized. The anthropic principle proposes that fundamental constants may have the values they have...
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