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try to relate them to the fact of our own existence. We still have to learn how to
calculate the probabilities in the eternally inflating universe. We still need to find

a full string theory description of particle phenomenology and estimate the total

number of vacua which can describe our world. But it will be very difficult to turn
back and unlearn what we just learned. Now that we have found that there exist
simple anthropic solutions to many problems of modern physics, one would need
either to find an alternative solution to all of these problems, or to learn how to live
in the democratic world where the freedom of choice applies even to our universe.

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