I disagree. You know how scientific method works, right? You make an observation, create a model, make another observation and see how well your model fits. With a unique phenomena you only have one observation.
The whole anthropic principle thing just annoys me because it seems to stem from a confusion. People can certainly imagine a lot of universes without people. So they compare it to the real world and say it is fine-tuned. But this is a misapplication of scientific method. What you imagine is not an observation. You can’t invent different laws of physics and pretend they exist somewhere.
I mean, look at the text you posted. Nick Land thinks the idea that we are in the beginning of time is odd. Why? Does he have a window into another universe which isn’t odd?
I disagree. You know how scientific method works, right? You make an observation, create a model, make another observation and see how well your model fits. With a unique phenomena you only have one observation.
The whole anthropic principle thing just annoys me because it seems to stem from a confusion. People can certainly imagine a lot of universes without people. So they compare it to the real world and say it is fine-tuned. But this is a misapplication of scientific method. What you imagine is not an observation. You can’t invent different laws of physics and pretend they exist somewhere.
I mean, look at the text you posted. Nick Land thinks the idea that we are in the beginning of time is odd. Why? Does he have a window into another universe which isn’t odd?