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} }
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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