Enlightenment , Knowledge , Ignorance , Temptation ∗
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I discuss the historical and conceptual roots of reasoning about the parameters of fundamental physics and cosmology based on selection effects. I argue concretely that such reasoning can and should be combined with arguments based on symmetry and dynamics; it supplements them, but does not replace them. * Summary talk at " Expectations of a Final Theory " , Trinity College, Cambridge, September 2005. Drastically condensed and otherwise modified from the talk as delivered.
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