The Anthropic Principle as explained by Itsuki Koizumi

The wikipedia page on this subject was pretty boring. I thought Koizumi offered a more interesting explanation XD delves into the mysticism of the subject.

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[beandaddyo]

I start with the things I know for certain. There are 2 things:

1. The universe is perceived to exist

2. I am here to perceive it; I am myself and not and not someone else. In other words, I experience a very specific form of consciousness.

[beandaddyo]

So, how to construct a view of the universe that takes into account these two givens? I'll go through the possibilities (and impossibilities.) 1. universe creates consciousness. 2. consciousness creates universe. 3. Both soul and universe emerged independently. 4. something else creates soul and universe.

When you think about it, 2 and 4 make the most sense... consciousness is something too bizare and supernaturally to be explained by science IMO (continued in next post)

[YamiYunaki]

He's much better then Wikipedia at explaining this.

[AxelsomebodyXX]

There's all this complicated stuff, I just watched this because I like koizumi...

[AnimeNoobX12]

The driver is like "Wtf is this guy saying?"

[happyman]

why is the universe explainable? why are there laws instead of chaos--ontological epistemological chaos? why is there order instead of a soup of randomness?

[dizziegirlie2]

Which episode is this from??

[ExtremeYaoiFanatic]

I don't giva a fuck about what people say about the anthropic princple, I BELIEVE IT. It makes sense, and it actually seems to explain how the universe seems to always fit the population of different life that inhabits it, or at least on Earth. So for all the people who want to make it known to EVERYBODY that they don't believe it, assuming that everybody things the SAME WAY they do, there ARE people who believe this. Bashers of other people's beliefs, LET ME BE HEARD.

[BlankPicketSign]

@whade62000

"universe could have ended up in a million other ways"

This argument of "Anthropic Principle" can be boiled down to

"If things were different, then things would be different"

This is a Logical Fallacy known as a Tautology. People love thinking they are cosmologically special, when they aren't

Life Adapted to survive in our universe, not the other way around. We are the mold growing on the Universe, adapting and changing to survive while the universe continues to expand without us.

[whade62000]

Ergo, the fact that the universe is fine tuned to support us in an illusion: there are endless possible universes where there is no life, but since there is no-one in those to ask those, to living creatures it always looks like the universe is 'just right" to support them.(The same argument can be applied to a lot of things, eg. why do we exist, why do we look the way we are, why has civilization survived etc. Answer: the chance was not neccessarily high, but the question preassumes the answer.)