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We turn to the second strand of arguments for SSA. Here we show that many important scientific fields implicitly rely on SSA and that it (or something much like it) constitutes an indispensable part of scientific methodology. SSA in cosmology Recall our earlier hunch that the trouble in deriving observational consequences from theories that were coupled to some Big World hypothesis might originate in the somewhat “technical” point that while in a large enough cosmos, every observation will be made by some observers here and there, it is notwithstanding true that those observers are exceedingly rare and far between. For every observation made by a freak observer spontaneously materializing from Hawking radiation or thermal fluctuations, there are trillions and trillions of observations made by regular observers who have evolved on planets like our own, and who make veridical observations of the universe they are living in. Maybe we can solve the problem, then, by saying that although al

Chapter 5 | anthropic-principle.com Skip to main content area Home Anthropic Bias FAQ Media & Contact Table of Contents Preamble Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 Observation selection effects A brief history of anthropic reasoning Synopsis of this book Chapter 2 Does fine-tuning need explaining? No “Inverse Gambler’s Fallacy” Roger White and Phil Dowe’s analysis Surprising vs. unsurprising improbable events Modeling observation selection effects: the angel parable Preliminary conclusions Chapter 3 The anthropic principle as expressing an observation selection effect Anthropic hodgepodge Frea

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