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A human builds a house. Compared to the house, the human is omnipotent; it goes where it pleases and is free to create and destroy houses at will. Yet, Occam’s
by aetherspawn 9y ago
A human builds a house. Compared to the house, the human is omnipotent; it goes where it pleases and is free to create and destroy houses at will. Yet, Occam’s Razor does not agree that, after the human has left, the house was never engineered.
As humans, are we so ignorant to think that we are the apex of intelligence? That we could never be like the house, ignorant of how insignificant we are?
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoAdditionally I allocate a piece of memory and don't bother to release it, my program runs fine when I execute from the terminal, therefore I can regularly call my program as a subroutine and face no issues.
- aetherspawn 9y agoI understand your analogy, but I'd like to understand the point behind your analogy. Would you be able to extend your analogy with a brief explanation? Or is it /s to the point that I perhaps failed to explicitly explain the relevance of my comment to the parent comment? If so, I apologize. The parent comment said "The mechanics of an omnipotent being are infinitely more complex than evolution" and the point of the house analogy was to argue that it's based on viewpoint. The house may think that the mechanics of the human are infinitely more complex (i.e. the wiring of the house barely compares to a handful of neurons from the human), but from the perspective of the human there is nothing complex about the interaction. For the house to be self-bootstrapping from just soup would be curious and highly unlikely from their POV. As a human our reasoning ability is influenced by our viewpoint (and that's not to say any one viewpoint is right or wrong), so we should always play devils advocate with the razor.