--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> 
> wrote:
> > > >
> > >  
> > > > Seems to me "anthropic reasoning" points directly
> > > > to the problem of awareness.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > ******************
> > > 
> > > "...the dark energy is infinitesimal and no one has been able to 
> say 
> > > why.
> > > 
> > > Except, that is, for followers of a controversial doctrine 
> called the 
> > > anthropic principle. There is no fundamental reason, they say, 
> why the 
> > > dark energy is so weak. It is just that if it were much 
> stronger, space 
> > > would have expanded too rapidly to harbor stars and, ultimately, 
> life. 
> > > The implication is that there is a multitude of possible 
> universes, 
> > > each with its own physics. Naturally, we are in one where it is 
> > > possible for us to exist."
> > > 
> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/weekinreview/08johnson.html
> > >
> > 
> > It's not really THAT controversial. Stephen Hawkings subscribes to 
> it, I think...>>
> 
> Stephen Hawkings recently denounced the theory that made him famous 
> 20 years ago. Think that one through. Stephen Hawkings recently 
> denounced the theory that made him famous 20 years ago. 

Er, no. He recanted on a specific belief about Black Holes and 
information--that the 
information was gone forever. He certainly didn't renounce a belief in 
evaporating black 
holes, only in a belief that they emitted radiation that was completely random.





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