[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your reply!

Now I'm going to be mulling it over whether the whole Anthropic Principle isn't just an overblown example of retrospective astonishment.

I hope you do! But please do not change your terminology because yours is much more descriptive. Anthropic Principle, aka retrospective astonishment.

[PatrickHenry]

But please do not change your terminology because yours is much more descriptive. Anthropic Principle, aka retrospective astonishment.

I won't change. But let's not assume that they are the same thing. I suspect they aren't There is some overlap, in that some versions of the antropic principle are really nothing but pure declarations of astonishment that we're here, but I think there's more to it than that.