Religion and evolution

[tama]

46. Yes, it is amazing and wonderful to be

and what's wrong with circularity? I'm constantly amazed by a 1D-line that by the transcendental power of pi becomes a circle, an ouroboros, by the fact that a sphere is a 2D surface or couple of them inside-outside, by the Moebius loop that has only one surface and goes very odd when cutting it with a pair of scissors, etc...

And as for the implication you mention, anthropic principle is a misnomer as it refers more generally to carbon based observers and the values of constants that allow carbon to exist and behave like it does. "Consciousness" usually refers to something very vaguely defined, so that is difficult to comment, but if you mean it in most general or fundamental way, relation of x being conscious of y or something similar, that could be said also about fundamental particles, especially entangled particles in quantum experiments. In that way I see no implication that consciousness would be limited to only to the universes which allow carbon based observers like us.