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George Duke wrote on Wed, Jul 9, 2008 11:13 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Many worlds and Chess. Calvinball would not be far afield. All possible universes, from one of which the Dragon carries over, in reading Clifford Simak's 'Way Station'(?). Dragon and all the Dragon's resonances East and West. We consider fashionable extremely strong anthropic principle. Mere strong anthropic points to the observable being as it is fully in order precisely for us to observe it. Weak anthropic addresses conscious life, numerical constants, the gravitational constant. If Earth is 10% closer, or Sol 10% cooler, or proton 10% heavier, no Life and all that that entails. Stronger, we get to all possible worlds, and where else intelligence can be. (Skeptics leave out ''else,'' questioning Earthly intelligence.) Strong anthropic posits different fundamental constants and laws of Physics in different universes. Extremely strong anthropic would hold that a universe came about in order to embody narrow agenda, like works of Shakespeare, or forms and moves of Chess, or some other preferred spiritual zealotry. Adrian King begins 'Scirocco' with H.J.R. Murray in 'A History of Chess': ''Of the making of these games there need be no end, and I have no doubt that many other varieties have been proposed and perhaps played, of which we have been spared the knowledge.'' -- 1912, anticipating Capablanca Chess, Cavalry Chess, and some others.

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