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> It's a miracle that a species like ours could combine all the necessary, quite fragile, ingredients to develop intelligence. The Anthropic Principle says thi
by stevesimmons 7y ago
> It's a miracle that a species like ours could combine all the necessary, quite fragile, ingredients to develop intelligence.
The Anthropic Principle says this combination must have happened with probability 1, otherwise there would be noone to observe it not happening.
- LessDmesg 7y agoNope, the anthropic principle does not imply that probability is 1. It's not even really a principle, just a post-factum observation. There may have been no one on Earth to write this stuff on a smartphone, ever. There might have even been no life in our Universe, ever. We shouldn't take these things for granted.