Anthropic Bias Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy Nick Bostrom

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93 If you were to generate lumps of matter at random and wait until a brain in a conscious state emerged, you’d most likely find that the first conscious brain-state was some totally weird psychedelic one, but at any rate not one consistent with the highly specific and orderly set of knowledge represented by e.

94 Again, we are disregarding the infinite case. It seems that in order to handle the infinite case one would have to strengthen OE with something that is formulated in terms of spatial densities of observer-moments rather than classes of observer-moments. But that is beyond the scope of this investigation.

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