From Derek Bolton
Leonard Susskind comments on the anthropic principle – the proposal that the universe appears miraculously well-tuned to our kind of life because those are the conditions for us being here to make this observation – saying it “requires the strong assumption that our kind of life is the only kind possible” (17 December 2005, p 48). Not so.
Suppose merely that almost all possible intelligent life requires conditions just as finely tuned – however different to ours. It would follow that most intelligent life forms would find themselves in remarkably special circumstances.
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