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The 200th episode of Mindscape! Thanks to everyone for sticking around for this long. To celebrate, a solo episode discussing a set of issues naturally arising at the intersection of philosophy and physics: how to think about probabilities and expectations in a multiverse. Here I am more about explaining the issues than offering correct answers, although I try to do a bit of that as well.
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References:
- Guth, “Inflation and Eternal Inflation“
- Weinberg, “Living In the Multiverse“
- Susskind, “The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory“
- Carroll, Johnson, and Randall, “Dynamical Compactification from De Sitter Space“
- Sebens and Carroll, “Self-Locating Uncertainty and the Origin of Probability in Everettian Quantum Mechanics“
- Wald, “Asymptotic behavior of homogeneous cosmological models in the presence of a positive cosmological constant“
- Gibbons and Hawking, “Cosmological Event Horizons, Thermodynamics, and Particle Creation“
- Carroll and Chatwin-Davies, “Cosmic Equilibration: A Holographic No-Hair Theorem from the Generalized Second Law“
- Dyson, Kleban, and Susskind, “Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant“
- Albrecht and Sorbo, “Can the Universe Afford Inflation?“
- Boddy, Carroll, and Pollack, “De Sitter Space Without Dynamical Quantum Fluctuations“
- Carroll, “Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad“
- Aguirre, Carroll, and Johnson, “Out of Equilibrium: Understanding Cosmological Evolution to Lower-Entropy States“
- Carroll, “Beyond Falsifiabiliy: Normal Science in a Multiverse“
- Carter and McCrea, “The Anthropic Principle and its Implications for Biological Evolution“
- Leslie, “Doomsday Revisited“
- Gott, “Implications of the Copernican Principle for Our Future Prospects“
- Bostrom, Anthropic Bias
- Vilenkin, “The Principle of Mediocrity“
- Olum, “Conflict Between Anthropic Reasoning and Observation“
- Elga, “Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem“
- Lewis, “Sleeping Beauty: Reply to Elga“
- Hartle and Srednicki, “Are We Typical?“
- Hartle and Srednicki, “Science in a Very Large Universe“
- Neal, “Puzzles of Anthropic Reasoning Resolved Using Fully Non-Indexical Conditioning“
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