Weak anthropic principle | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-18

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00:01:30 1 Definition and basis
00:03:45 2 Anthropic 'coincidences'
00:06:48 3 Origin
00:12:36 4 Variants
00:19:13 5 Character of anthropic reasoning
00:25:50 6 Observational evidence
00:28:53 7 Applications of the principle
00:29:03 7.1 The nucleosynthesis of carbon-12
00:29:59 7.2 Cosmic inflation
00:31:19 7.3 String theory
00:33:21 7.4 Dimensions of spacetime
00:33:43 8 Metaphysical interpretations
00:36:40 8.1 iThe Anthropic Cosmological Principle/i
00:37:03 9 Reception and controversies
00:37:17 10 See also
00:38:08 11 Notes
00:41:17 12 Footnotes
00:46:53 13 References
00:47:02 14 External links



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The anthropic principle is a philosophical consideration that observations of the universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it. Some proponents of the anthropic principle reason that it explains why this universe has the age and the fundamental physical constants necessary to accommodate conscious life. As a result, they believe it is unremarkable that this universe has fundamental constants that happen to fall within the narrow range thought to be compatible with life.
The strong anthropic principle (SAP), as explained by John D. Barrow and Frank Tipler, states that this is all the case because the universe is in some sense compelled to eventually have conscious and sapient life emerge within it. Some critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle (WAP) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias (specifically survivor bias): i.e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing and reflecting on the matter. Most often such arguments draw upon some notion of the multiverse for there to be a statistical population of universes to select from and from which selection bias (our observance of only this universe, compatible with our life) could occur.