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In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the collective name for several ways of asserting that physical and chemical theories, especially astrophysics and cosmology, need to take into a...
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The Strong and Final Anthropic Principles are probably the most controversial of the many versions of the Anthropic Principle. They have a ring of creationism, a philosophy that has been frowned on by science since Darwin’s day.
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Later, Carter also proposed the Strong Anthropic Principle (SAP), which states that the Universe had to bring humanity into being. This version is much more teleological, if not theological, and is of a highly speculative nature.
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This idea is known as the strong anthropic principle. Is such an idea a part of testable science? The whole basis of the weak anthropic principle is the argument that life-free universes cannot be observed, and observations of these counter-examples would be required in order to falsify the strong anthropic principle.
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For some cosmologists the Weak Anthropic Principle does not go far enough. Their response is to invoke the existence of rational carbon-based life forms as an explanation of the anthropic features of the universe.
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Objections to the strong anthropic principle come down to one thing: that you can't estimate the probabilities of something unique like the universe. According to this objection, all that the fine tuning of the underlying constants of the universe show is that if it were not as it is, we wouldn't be there to see it;
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Strong anthropic principle (SAP) (Carter): "the Universe (and hence the fundamental parameters on which it depends) must be such as to admit the creation of observers within it at some stage. To paraphrase Descartes, cogito ergo mundus talis est.";
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CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): We discuss the Carter's formula about the mankind evolution probability following the derivation proposed by Barrow and Tipler. ... Is the Strong Anthropic Principle Too Weak? (1999)
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