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The character of this Professor is never introduced properly, but his function is humanocentric in the extreme: the [[wikipedia:Anthropic_principle|anthropic principle]] states that humans should take into account the constraints that human existence as observers imposes on the sort of universe that could be observed. Originally proposed as a rule of reasoning, the term has since been extended to cover supposed "superlaws" that in various ways require the universe to support intelligent life.

The Professor at [[UU]] presumably applies these theories to prove that the universe exists ''in order'' for there to ''be'' a Professor of Applied Anthropics who can prove that the universe exists in order for there to be a Professor of Applied Anthropics...

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