The Doomsday Argument without Knowledge of Birth Rank

Abstract

The Carter–Leslie doomsday argument can be given in a situation where you do not know your birth rank, even approximately. This gives support to the refutation of the doomsday argument based on the self–indication assumption ‘Finding that you exist gives you reason to think that there are many observers’.

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