Kantian noumenal and phenomenal categries might be called 'The Anthropic Principle of Perception'. Because all human experience and knowledge of the cosmos is given by it's own measure, except for the revealked knowledge of the Bible, it may be impossible to ever form an absolute, accurate observation and theory based cosmology of the Universe or pluralverse.
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Physics and Meta-Physics in CosmologyVoted for by GaryCGibson.
Substantial material facts are considered to be the universe for-itself. One might of course stipoulate the word 'material' as an intermediate term, yet that would be wrong.
One can say that 'knowledge' or 'science' is generally about the heterodox interpretation of sense data in increasingly rational parameters of mechanics perhaps.
The idea of what the Universe is like for-itself is of present interest. Not only is there an anthropic principal regarding the parametrical values that physicist find about the bound variables that allow life to exist in this universe, and its improbability, there is perhaps something else that i will call the 'anthropic principle of perception' that is maybe a synthetic update of Kant's concept of categorical limits of human perception and accurate interpretaion of sense data because of the nature of the cognitive faculties in the human condition.
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Incidentally... here is that ship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KdF_Ship_Wilhelm_Gustloff that was a Nazi Cruise boat that sank with the greatest loss of life in maritime history. In 1945 a Soviet submarine captain torpedoed it with maybe 10,000 refugees aboard as it sought to flee the red army's advance...and yes there were some German females that were naval reservists and some replacement Nazi-U boat crewmen aboard sufficient to decivilianize the passanger compliment.
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The anthropic principle of perception would be that the Universe is perhaps mass/energy or whatever it's called by people, and yet it's scale and shape or particular attributes are what cognition makes it seem to be...such as planets and galaxies. For itself the Universe may be quite something else. All those spatial dimentions may be united in a hyper-time that isn't relativistic, the superposition of quantum particles from all possible worldlines may simply be an illusory perceptable phenomenality by humans in'the'universe through scientific theory because they fit the 'holographic' nature of the Universe fully. There may be no space for-itself or time, and the nature of things such as gravity may be developments of long human sense experience that seem very meaningful yet aren't primary or essential fundamental building blocks of the Universe or pluralverse.
In a sense science must rely on mathematical metaphysics in order to try to understand the true nature of the universe through theories that can fit observations better and better, yet they do have that absolute limitation of being surpassabel by 'greater' or meta physics.
The anthropic perception principle means that the window of space-time that people experience in may be limited or filtered to such an extent that absolute empirical knowledge of the Universe or pluralverse isn't practical, and that it's grounding in God, and the kingdom of God being within ultimately, is a matter of faith.
Recently astronomers observed probable galaxies with many old stars from inflaton plus 800 million years upsetting the entire context of missing dark matter and energy in the Universe. Much shaky ground and facinating possibilities exist out there. The 'Dark Era' of the Universe before star and galaxy formation wasn't, in theory, so many hundreds of million years before.
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