On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/27/2016 3:40 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Although your evolution may be statistically improbable, mostly at the >>> biochemical level, there's no reason that the rest of the world should >>> show >>> any statistical strangeness. After all, your present existence is also >>> extremely improbable. >> >> But the rest of the world does show statistical strangeness, for >> example the apparent fine-tuning of the cosmological constant for life >> to be possible. > > > Whether the CC is fine-tuned or not is far from established. Vic Stenger > noted that the holographic principle drastically reduces the vacuum degrees > of freedom and produces a CC estimate that's in the ball park.
Thanks, didn't know that. > Of course > being consistent with life could just be a self-selection effect and it > should not cause other statistics, e.g. vital statistics, to be strange. True, but assuming the MWI, being consistent with one life becomes increasingly specific, no? > Brent > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
