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pleasure, joy, and compassion as the true pillars of whatever synonym best fits evolution. Individuals feel this. But at the species level, we know nothing. Our data
denies us individually even as it sets specific demographic quantities. Numerous
doomsday paradoxes have been enshrined in mathematical logic in an effort to grapple with the sheer anticipatory anxiety—a veritable coefficient—lurking beneath
the numerous debates whose primary components encompass human population,
history, and probability theories. They include the “Carter catastrophe,” the Heinz
von Foerster “Doomsday equation,” and Richard Gott’s “vague prior formulation”.
38
38 J. Richard Gott, III (1993). “Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects”.
Nature. 363 (6427): 315–319. Bibcode:1993Natur.363..315G.; the John A. Leslie “1.2 trillion”
human population theorem; (Oliver, Jonathan; Korb, Kevin (1998). “A Bayesian Analysis of the
Doomsday Argument”. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.5899.) Dennis Dicks’ 1992 “Doomsday argument”
(Self-Indication Argument) (See Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic (2003). “The doomsday argument and the self-indication assumption: reply to Olum” (PDF). Philosophical Quarterly. 53 (210):
83–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00298; the St. Petersburg Paradox (Plous, Scott
(January 1, 1993). “Chapter 7”. The psychology of decision-making. McGraw-Hill Education; and
Eves, Howard (1990). An Introduction To The History of Mathematics (6th ed.). Brooks/Cole –
Thomson Learning. p. 427.); the Strong Self-Sampling Assumption (SSSA) (*Brandon Carter;
McCrea, W. H. (1983). “The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution”.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A310 (1512): 347–363.
Bibcode:1983RSPTA.310..347C. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1983.0096; and an exuberant rash of
self-referencing doomsday rebuttals. (“A probable paradox,” Nature from Oct 23, 1997 – A probable paradox. P. T. Landsberg &; J. N. Dewynne ... Landsberg, P., Dewynne, J. A probable paradox. Nature 389, 779 (1997) doi:10.1038/ ...
Fig. 80.4 Baby Dolls in Downtown Mexico City. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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pleasure, joy, and compassion as the true pillars of whatever synonym best fits evolution. Individuals feel this. But at the species level, we know nothing. Our data
denies us individually even as it sets specific demographic quantities. Numerous
doomsday paradoxes have been enshrined in mathematical logic in an effort to grapple with the sheer anticipatory anxiety—a veritable coefficient—lurking beneath
the numerous debates whose primary components encompass human population,
history, and probability theories. They include the “Carter catastrophe,” the Heinz
von Foerster “Doomsday equation,” and Richard Gott’s “vague prior formulation”.
38
38 J. Richard Gott, III (1993). “Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects”.
Nature. 363 (6427): 315–319. Bibcode:1993Natur.363..315G.; the John A. Leslie “1.2 trillion”
human population theorem; (Oliver, Jonathan; Korb, Kevin (1998). “A Bayesian Analysis of the
Doomsday Argument”. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.49.5899.) Dennis Dicks’ 1992 “Doomsday argument”
(Self-Indication Argument) (See Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic (2003). “The doomsday argument and the self-indication assumption: reply to Olum” (PDF). Philosophical Quarterly. 53 (210):
83–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00298; the St. Petersburg Paradox (Plous, Scott
(January 1, 1993). “Chapter 7”. The psychology of decision-making. McGraw-Hill Education; and
Eves, Howard (1990). An Introduction To The History of Mathematics (6th ed.). Brooks/Cole –
Thomson Learning. p. 427.); the Strong Self-Sampling Assumption (SSSA) (*Brandon Carter;
McCrea, W. H. (1983). “The anthropic principle and its implications for biological evolution”.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A310 (1512): 347–363.
Bibcode:1983RSPTA.310..347C. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1983.0096; and an exuberant rash of
self-referencing doomsday rebuttals. (“A probable paradox,” Nature from Oct 23, 1997 – A probable paradox. P. T. Landsberg &; J. N. Dewynne ... Landsberg, P., Dewynne, J. A probable paradox. Nature 389, 779 (1997) doi:10.1038/ ...
Fig. 80.4 Baby Dolls in Downtown Mexico City. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
80 Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life