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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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How similar is the fine-tuning of our universe to probabilistic reasoning we use and understand? Simon Friederich and Erik Curiel go through a series of examples.
In the third part of their discussion, Simon Friederich and Erik Curiel go over the connection between a widely recognized fallacy--the Gambler’s Fallacy--and the fine-tuning argument. How similar is the fine-tuning argument for the multiverse to common ways of reasoning from observations to likelihoods? This discussion was conducted at the University of Oxford on October 6, 2017.

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The Physics of Fine-Tuning
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Erik Curiel
Simon Friederich
Keywords
philosophy
fine-tuning
Physics
science
philosophy of science
astronomy
multiverse
gambler’s fallacy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 24/04/2018
Duration: 00:14:56

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