So if you generate a number randomly between one and one million, each number has a one in a million chance of being chosen. Like, if I get the number 5, I can say that it is unlikely that it is a coincidence, as there was only a one in a million chance of this happening. However, there is no reason why I wouldn’t have said the same thing if I received a 6 or 335,687. So there isn’t really a coincidence or a surprised, because regardless of result, we could have said something similar.
I don’t believe in the magical universe theory either. My point was simply that the anthropic principle is not an effective counter-argument. If the maths suggests that a magical universe exists or that a sophistic universe exists, I suspect that you’ve probably set the prior probabilities to be too high.
So if you generate a number randomly between one and one million, each number has a one in a million chance of being chosen. Like, if I get the number 5, I can say that it is unlikely that it is a coincidence, as there was only a one in a million chance of this happening. However, there is no reason why I wouldn’t have said the same thing if I received a 6 or 335,687. So there isn’t really a coincidence or a surprised, because regardless of result, we could have said something similar.
I don’t believe in the magical universe theory either. My point was simply that the anthropic principle is not an effective counter-argument. If the maths suggests that a magical universe exists or that a sophistic universe exists, I suspect that you’ve probably set the prior probabilities to be too high.