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Old 22-March-2008, 05:08 PM
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Sean Carroll's article on the Anthropic Principle from back in 2004 is excellent and worth reading.

By the way, I meant to point out to KenG Carroll's remark in the interview linked above where he differentiated between the views of Steven Weinberg and David Deutsch regarding [paraphrasing] the fundamental reason for science. I have long sought some way to express what I have thought is wrong (or too one-sided) with what I suppose is Ken's philosophical view of science, and here Sean Carroll expresses it quite well in 5 or 10 seconds in this interview. Of course, being too "Weinbergian" is hardly a criticism that many people would be unhappy about, but I believe Carroll sided solidly with Deutsch on this point, as do I.
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