• DOI:10.1023/B:FOPL.0000032475.18334.0e
Corpus ID: 17143230

Why Occam’S Razor

@article{Standish2004WhyOR,
  title={Why Occam’S Razor},
  author={R. Standish},
  journal={Foundations of Physics Letters},
  year={2004},
  volume={17},
  pages={255-266}
}

R. Standish

Published 2004

Physics

Foundations of Physics Letters

Ensemble theories have received a lot of interest recently as a means of explaining a lot of the detailed complexity observed in reality by a vastly simpler description “every possibility exists” and a selection principle (Anthropic Principle) “we only observe that which is consistent with our existence.” In this paper I show why, in an ensemble theory of the universe, we should be inhabiting one of the elements of that ensemble with least information content that satisfies the anthropic… CONTINUE READING

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