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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Testability and Epistemic Shifts in Modern Cosmology [PDF]
, 2012 During the last decade new developments in theoretical and speculative cosmology have reopened the old discussion of cosmology’s scientific status and the more general question of the demarcation between science and non-science. The multiverse hypothesis,
Kragh, Helge
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Unlocking the Marvel Multiverse: The Cosmic Nexus of Science, Philosophy, and Fiction through the Infinity Stones [PDF]
Философия и космологияMarvel’s cinematic depiction of the Infinity Stones, six powerful artifacts capable of reshaping reality, offers a unique lens through which to explore the convergence of science, philosophy, and popular culture.
Petro Katerynych
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, 2007 I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions -- including an identical copy of you about 10 ...
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Feeling‐together, a strategy for honing madness into craft
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract This eclectic piece centers ethnographic practice within networks of feelings that co‐delineate an anthropologist's encounter with imaginative, world‐shaping forces—by carving into peer‐to‐peer repositories for self‐reflexivity. Incidents of madness can thus offer a deliberate resonance and clarity not only to insiders but also to the wider ...
Luke Kernan
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Identity and uncertainty in Everett's multiverse [PDF]
, 2008 In the current debate on the concept of probability in the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics Saunders and Wallace argue for a notion of pre-measurement uncertainty whilst Greaves and Myrvold attempt to do without uncertainty altogether.
Tappenden, Paul
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ManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 6, November 2026.ABSTRACT The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7‐month‐old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were able to generalize those rules to novel syllable sequences.
Ingmar Visser +83 more
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Anthropic reasoning in multiverse cosmology and string theory [PDF]
, 2005 Anthropic arguments in multiverse cosmology and string theory rely on the weak anthropic principle (WAP). We show that the principle, though ultimately a tautology, is nevertheless ambiguous.
Weinstein, Steven, Steven Weinstein
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Bayes, God, and the multiverse [PDF]
, 2012 The chapter begins by summarizing how the structure of an argument from the fine-tuning of a single universe to the existence of God can be expressed in terms of Bayes’ theorem.
Swinburne, RG, Harrison, V, Chandler, J
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, 2019 Penelope Maddy has recently addressed the set-theoretic multiverse, and expressed reservations on its status and merits ([Maddy, 2017]). The purpose of the paper is to examine her concerns, by using the interpretative framework of set-theoretic ...
Ternullo, Claudio
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