A Critique of Shortsighted Anthropic Principles

Many people marvel that we live in a universe that seems to be precisely tailored to suit the development of intelligent life. The observation is the basis for some forms of “Anthropic Principles” that strive to explain why the laws of physics take the form we observe, given the nearly countless other possibilities permitted by schools of thought such as string theory.

But a new paper in Physical Review Letters
from a group of physicists at Case Western Reserve University argues
that any connection between the laws of physics and the existence of
life is likely to be an illusion stemming from our shortsighted
definition of intelligent life.

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