Apophthegmatic Apéritifs (VII)

For your tasting pleasure (click for the main course):

the Weak Anthropic Principle --basically “We’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here-- and if we weren’t, we wouldn’t be here to know it”

There are creatures, as 'tis said (sit fides penes authorem, but there appears no contradiction,that there should be such) that with language, and reason, and a shape  in other things agreeing with ours,  have hairy tails …

What things are there?  The typical examples are:  This table, or this coffeepot.  But it is significant that these examples are usually things that we (ourselves created in the image of God, and thus rather already an irruption of the transcendent into the material universe) have crafted to our own ends: this table, to hold our proofs of the Riemann hypothesis; this coffeepot, to pot our coffee. 

“das Ewig-Weibliche”

We feel a responsibility to those unsuspecting souls, astray in the Googlewoods, who in quest of enlightenment concerning the Urysohn Metrization Theorem, should wind up at our own humble cottage door.   Accordingly we have formed the intention to make good…

Should it turn out I’m only a brain in a vat, worse luck:  no coffee-cup after all.  But the number of primes will still be infinite.