Mea culpa: "The Neural Lyre" was published in 1983, not 1994. Don't know why I said that! Read today's poem here Topics discussed in this episode include: -William Paley's watchmaker analogy -Problems with teleological arguments -Brandon Carter's Anthropic Principle -Multiverse/many worlds theory -John Archibald Wheeler's Participatory Anthropic Principle -"It from bit" -George Berkeley's Idealism -Vedanta Hinduism -"The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" -Barrow and Tipler's ...