Re: Science Struggle

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From: John McCarthy
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:00

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It seems to me that the anthropic principle suffered a hit recently
when the conditions for survival of prokaryote bacteria were
discovered to be much less demanding than previously thought.
-- 
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

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From: John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: Science Struggle
Date: 1999/09/21
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