SONG 11 of 26 - The Anthropic Viewpoint

[Rob Bryanton]

You can hear this song at the following link:

http://amiestreet.com/player.php?autopl ... gId__6290/

THE ANTHROPIC VIEWPOINT
music and lyrics (c) 2006 by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

(This song combines the concept of the “Anthropic Principle” as advanced by Stephen Hawking in his “The Universe in a Nutshell” with Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorum, one of the central points of Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing “Gödel, Escher, Bach”, and throws in some strange ideas of my own. And it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.)

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
The only thing that I know for certain
In everything that you say and do
The only thing you know for sure is you
Believe in that and you will be okay
You could live to fight another day, some day

Pay no mind to those tiny little voices
Every day you gotta make some choices
Make ‘em right and you can carry on
Make ‘em wrong and you will soon be gone
And if it seems just a little unfair
Get used to it, cause the stars don’t care, don’t care

In the anthropic viewpoint
The reason we’re here is because we’re here
And if it were impossible
Then we wouldn’t be

If there’s other worlds then we’ve just missed ‘em
No way to know what’s outside our system
We’re like goldfish livin in a bowl
What’s beyond it we can never know
All we can do is theorize
Cause we can never… get outside, outside

In the anthropic viewpoint…

So here we are in the Hydrogen Conspiracy
That’s the way that it certainly appears to be
What’s the reason, where’s the rhyme
How’d we end up on this line
All those other possibilities
They’re just as real, but they don’t have me
It’s no big deal, not worth a fuss
They’re just as real, but they don’t have us, have us

In the anthropic viewpoint
The reason we’re here is because we’re here
And if it were impossible
Then we wouldn’t be

[tyflikw]

I have been waiting for several months for these songs! They are excellent quality, as well as being well written. There is not one sample song out that I do not love.

[Rob Bryanton]

Thanks for the kind words, tyflikw, that means a lot to me. Stay tuned, we are working on some interesting extrapolations and repurposing for these songs now that should make the whole project more fun for everyone involved.

Thanks!

Rob

[liquidpig]

Well-said.. all of these songs are easy to listen to yet contain so much information and seemingly "far-fetched ideas," in easy-to-understand laymen's terms. I think it's nothing short of spectatcular, and I've introduced all my (intellectual, spiritual) friends to your songs. Keep 'em coming!

[adampasternak]

Now I have this song stuck in my head. Really catchy, dude.

Like Phil Collins zoomed-in. Although Phil Collins probably never contemplated his fifth-dimensional probability space...

[Rob Bryanton]

Not sure where Mr. Collins stands on extra dimensions. Hey, thanks for the compliment!

ROb