Tag: Anthropic Principle
Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness
Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain.
More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning
Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe.
A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology
Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making.
In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded.
Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different.