We examine recent claims of a large set of flux compactification solutions of string theory. We conclude that the arguments for AdS solutions are plausible. The analysis of meta-stable dS solutions inevitably leads to situations where long distance effective field theory breaks down. We then examine whether these solutions are likely to lead to a description of the real world. We conclude that ...

This paper sets out to resolve how agents ought to act in the Sleeping Beauty problem and various related anthropic (self-locating belief) problems, not through the calculation of anthropic probabilities, but through finding the correct decision to make. It creates an anthropic decision theory (ADT) that decides these problems from a small set of principles. By doing so, it demonstrates that th...

This principle expresses an observational selection effect: If we have a cosmological theory according to which there are multiple universes or ”domains”, then when thinking about the observational consequences of that theory we have to take into account only those domains in which observers exist. For example, even if the vast majority of domains are inhospitable to life, the theory would pred...

Anthropic reasoning often begins with the premise that we should expect to find ourselves typical among all intelligent observers. However, in the infinite universe predicted by inflation, there are some civilizations which have spread across their galaxies and contain huge numbers of individuals. Unless the proportion of such large civilizations is unreasonably tiny, most observers belong to t...

This book may be an important contribution to an argument developing in the scientific world about the origin of man. Darwin's theory of Evolution by Natural Selection was in its time a concept so heretical that it took Darwin, a Christian believer, many years before he could commit himself to expound it. It is now so universally accepted that to question it or to seek to modify it is almost eq...

In order to study fenpropathrin degrading more accurate than turbidimetry. We proposed Live Bacteria Detection method (LBD) based on high precision microscopic image processing and Support Vector Machine (SVM) identification to analyze the optimal condition of fenpropathrin degradation by Ochrobactrum anthropic. The optimal fenpropathrin degradation condition measured by LBD is pH 7.0 and 34°C....

We attempt to dissolve the measurement problem using an anthropic principle which allows us to invoke rational observers. We argue that the key feature of such observers is that they are rational (we need not care whether they are 'classical' or 'macroscopic' for example) and thus, since quantum theory can be expressed as a rational theory of probabilistic inference, the measurement problem is ...