The purpose of this brief and hurried essay is to initiate discussions with others here and elsewhere on some ideas that have been fermenting in my mind for a very long time. Many of these ideas have in various forms appeared in my previous FQXi Contest Essays, A World Without Quanta? (2010) and The Metaphysics of Physics (2012); and in my Chapter, The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law. In this essay I introduce The Anthropocentric Principle: Our Understanding of the Universe is such as to make Life possible.
Constantinos Ragazas