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Perhaps we’re overdoing the copernican principle at this point? It’s weird how researchers internalize that to the point they can’t even fathom that anything a
by bilsbie 4y ago
Perhaps we’re overdoing the copernican principle at this point? It’s weird how researchers internalize that to the point they can’t even fathom that anything about existence is special.
IMO that well is dry and our future breakthroughs will come from focusing on the observers of the universe.
(Thanks for attending my Ted talk)
- layer8 4y agoSpecialness requires explanation, or alternatively it’s just a fluke. The latter is unsatisfactory, so we’re looking for explanations, and if there are none, or they again require special assumptions, then the natural conclusion is that there is no specialness.
- wongarsu 4y agoSome amount of specialness is normal. If our place in the multiverse can be described by 1000 random normal-distributed variables, you would expect 50 of those values to be at least two standard deviations away from the mean, and 3 variables to be three standard deviations off. Of course we don't know which ones, so assuming any one thing to be normal is the best approach. But looking at the big picture, there are bound to be flukes. Not having any would be an even bigger fluke