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devoid of the hydrogen or carbon atoms, without which life as we know

it, could not exist. This led Dicke to propose the so-called the anthropic

cosmological principle as follows [412]:

The Universe is the way it is because we exist. (10.48)

It should be pointed out that in order to explain the cosmological coin-

cidences mentioned above, it is not necessary that Homo sapiens exists in

this Universe. The existence of any carbon-based organisms (e.g., bacteria)

other than humanity will do just as well. Another point about (10.48) is that

it seems to assume that the formation of carbon and other elements on this

planet inevitably leads to or are the sufficient condition for the evolution of

Homo sapiens, for which there is no empirical evidence (to the best of my

knowledge). The formation of carbon and other elements are necessary but

not sufficient condition for Homo sapiens to exist on this planet. For these

reasons, I believe that the “anthropic” part of the anthropic cosmological

principle stated in (10.48) is unnecessary and over-determining, and can be

better replaced by an adjective related to life forms in general. Thus, I sug-

gest that the more appropriate name for the principle may be the “organic

cosmological principle”, which may be stated thus:

The Universe is the way it is because life exists in it. (10.49)

If the postulate of the self-knowing universe is true, then it would fol-

low that the organic cosmological principle is valid, since otherwise no

Homo sapiens could exist in this Universe and the Universe cannot know

itself, contrary to the starting premise. If this sequence of reasoning is

valid, it would follow that the self-knowing universe (SKU) postulate IS

the true anthropic cosmological principle that was glimpsed by cosmolo-

gists five decades ago [412, 413].

The newly formulated Organic Cosmological Principle (OCP) may be

elaborated thus:

The numerical values of the physical constants are as they are because

they constitute the necessary conditions for there being carbon-based

life forms on this planet. (10.50)

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