[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Great Fred, I had exactly the same thought. The selection of ideas, just like > the selection of life forms, does not have to follow Occam. Otherwise we > would still be slime in the mud. > > Anthropic selection is yet another kind of selection. > > While natural selection (selection of the individual by the world) is 3rd > person effect, anthropy (selection of the world by the individual) is a 1st > person effect. They are identical except that the frame of reference is > different.
Interesting. This is exactly what I assert in my "Evolution in the Multiverse" paper. (http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/pubs.html). Any comments on that paper would be appreciated. Cheers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965 Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
