Yet the Copernican Principle denies the assumption that any privileged observers of the universe can exist.
I don’t think it denies the assumption in most forms. It might be better to state the Copernican Principle as assigning a low prior that we are privileged observers. That low prior can then be adjust to a reasonable posterior based on evidence.
I don’t think it denies the assumption in most forms. It might be better to state the Copernican Principle as assigning a low prior that we are privileged observers. That low prior can then be adjust to a reasonable posterior based on evidence.