Equation 3 · Part 2 · Fine-Tuning Without a Tuner: Selection Effects in Physics
Symbol λ
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…has no such settled status — whether it exists at all, in what sense, and how to count it relative to ours (the term in the expression above, the number or measure of observers a given value of produces) is precisely the disagreement the rest of this article has to work through. The trap analogy is exact about the logic of selection — you must condition on it — and silent about the ontology the anthropic argument additionally needs — that there be other trials to condition over in…
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