Hi Maya & everybody,

Rereading your comments and the quote makes me realize it can't all be about the anthropic principle.

You asked:
> What do these suggestions of alienated human observers' selfish
> "formulation" of the natural world mean?

And the quote was:
> "In the last analysis, can a satisfactory description of the
> physical world fail to take explicit account of the fact that
> it is itself formulated by and for human beings?"
>
> - A.J. Leggett

And rereading the quote, I missed the word "by". In fact I think it depends alot on what he's refering to. Is it "the physical world... is itself formulated by and for human beings" or is it a "description... formulated by and for human beings"? If it's the latter, then I think I missed the point in my last email. Although I am not sure I see what Leggett means, that is, how a description of the physical world should incorporate it's own origin.

--Eric