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Anthropomorphism and cosmographic principle in the Mandelbrot appraoch

The problem of the observer in cosmology

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“Man is only interested in the probability distribution of mass in cases where mass does not vanish, and he finds no help at all to be told that such cases almost never occur.”

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The property of anthropomorphism as it is held in fractal cosmography is reconstructed.

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Zabierowski, M. Anthropomorphism and cosmographic principle in the Mandelbrot appraoch. Astrophys Space Sci 141, 333–338 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639498

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