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Interesting. Occam's Razor says "don't multiply entities beyond need", not "don't multiply types of entities beyond need". Of course, you could argue that types
by osullivj 10y ago
Interesting. Occam's Razor says "don't multiply entities beyond need", not "don't multiply types of entities beyond need". Of course, you could argue that types are entities too. So many worlds minimizes entity types at the expense of total entity count.
- mrec 10y agoRight. Which makes it mildly ironic that John Wheeler, a leading early proponent of many-worlds, also proposed the one-electron universe... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
- TeMPOraL 10y ago"Number of entities" is probably best understood through Kolmogorov complexity. So two regular mice, or million regular mice aren't much more complex than one regular mouse. But having one regular mouse and one "special" mouse is more complex all of that.