Denoting by N the total number of humans who were ever or will ever be born, the Copernican principle suggests that humans are equally likely (along with the other N − 1 humans) to find themselves at any position of total population n, so humans assume that our fractional position f = n/N is uniformly distributed on the interval Ύ, 1] prior to learning our absolute position.
But this argument has generated a lively philosophical debate, and no consensus has yet emerged on its solution.
