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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
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Nick Bostrom
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Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by ""observation selection effects""--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to ""have"" the evidence. This conundrum--sometimes alluded to as ""the anthropic principle,"" ""self-locating belief,"" or ""indexical information""--turns out to be a surprisingly perplexing and intellectually stimulating challenge, one abounding with important implications for many areas in science and philosophy. There are the philosophical thought experiments and paradoxes: the Doomsday Argument; Sleeping Beauty; the Presumptuous Philosopher; Adam & Eve; the Absent-Minded Driver; the Shooting Room. And there are the applications in contemporary science: cosmology (""How many universes are there?"", ""Why does the universe appear fine-tuned for life?""); evolutionary theory (""How improbable was the evolution of intelligent life on our planet?""); the problem of time's arrow (""Can it be given a thermodynamic explanation?""); quantum physics (""How can the many-worlds theory be tested?""); game-theory problems with imperfect recall (""How to model them?""); even traffic analysis (""Why is the 'next lane' faster?""). Anthropic Bias argues that the same principles are at work across all these domains. And it offers a synthesis: a mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects that attempts to meet scientific needs while steering clear of philosophical paradox.
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18 Jun 2010
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978-0-4158-8394-8
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philosophy / general
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