Anthropic principles interpretations

Hoyle s [1] successful prediction of the 7.6 MeV resonance of the carbon-12 nucleus, based on observation of his own carbon-based existence, established the scientific usefulness of anthropic principles. These principles have become common, if not yet standard, tools in cosmology, where theories of initial conditions may not yet exist - or, if they do exist, may admit a range of values [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. At the same time, anthropic principles have retained a traditional role in religion and philosophy, where sensitive dependence of human existence on laws of nature that could imaginably have been otherwise is interpreted as evidence for human significance in the creation of the universe. 

Although different, both interpretations are categorized as weak anthropic principles whose meaning is defined by the refinement they make in the predictions of observables. Informationally [8], the surprise in an anthropic prediction is measured relative to the refinement of the same prediction without the condition of our existence. 

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