Discussed concepts include the self-sampling assumption and the self-indication assumption.Īs of February 2020, digital copies of the text can be obtained for free on Bostrom's personal webpage.
This conundrum is sometimes called the " anthropic principle," "self-locating belief," or "indexical information". Bostrom investigates how to reason when one suspects that evidence is biased by "observation selection effects", in other words, when the evidence presented has been pre-filtered by the condition that there was some appropriately positioned observer to "receive" the evidence. Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy (2002) is a book by philosopher Nick Bostrom.
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