Re: The Anthropic Principle Boundary Conditions

From: Jacques Mallah <jackmallah.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:12:45 -0700 (PDT)

--- Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> is obivous to me that many people are not rational -
> does that change the world? Do they live in a
> different universe - I thought that was just a
figure
> of speech. That's why I find interesting the
> arguments that attempt to impose a probability
> measure on the Plenitude and show that the world
> must (with probability one) be predictable/rational.


    First, no on'e trying to show it with probability
1. Just close.
    By "rational", as I was saying in my last post, I
think the point is that observations tend to be less
complex than would be obtained by just randomly
choosing observations from the set of all possible
observations. If a person is not rational, that
doesn't mean his brain (with his universe) is that
much more complicated than that of a rational person.

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               Jacques Mallah (jackmallah.domain.name.hidden)
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Received on Fri May 26 2000 - 14:17:47 PDT

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