Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology.
Recent developments in cosmology indicate that every history having a non-zero probability is realized in infinitely many distinct regions of spacetime. Thus, it appears that the universe contains infinitely many civilizations exactly like our own, as well as infinitely many civilizations that diffe...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 47 - 68 |
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University of Chicago Press
Mar2006
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