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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

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In this article, Barrow and Tipler examined the question of Mankind's place in the universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.
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Is there any connection between the vastness of the universes of stars and galaxies and the existence of life on a small planet out in the suburbs of the Milky Way? This book shows that there is. In their classic work, John Barrow and Frank Tipler examine the question of Mankind's place in the Universe, taking the reader on a tour of many scientific disciplines and offering fascinating insights into issues such as the nature of life, the serach for extraterrestrial intelligence, and the past history and fate of our universe.

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Using statistical methods to model the fine-tuning of molecular machines and systems.

TL;DR: This paper argues that biological systems present fine-tuning at different levels, e.g. functional proteins, complex biochemical machines in living cells, and cellular networks, and presents a framework for such analysis.
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Explanation and the dimensionality of space

TL;DR: It is argued that Kant correctly approached the question of why space has three dimensions by connecting space dimensionality and the inverse square law and described the main features of a general Kantian explanation of the dimensionality of space.
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Hartle-Hawking cosmology and unconditional probabilities

Robert J. Deltete, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1997 - 
TL;DR: The Hartle-Hawking (HH) cosmology is widely viewed as implying EFN cosmogenesis (e.g., Vilenkin 1983: 2852, 1984: 510, Pagels 1985: 346-47, Barrow and Tipler 1986: 443, and Barrow 1991: 90, 92).
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