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I'm definitely on your side in terms of where I ultimately lean, but I don't feel satisfied that this is a strong enough answer. I think the deist can insist "

I'm definitely on your side in terms of where I ultimately lean, but I don't feel satisfied that this is a strong enough answer. I think the deist can insist "My explanation is the most parsimonous. I have just the one thing, a deity. You have a kludge of a dozen different forces and laws and variables."

TeMPOraL 9y ago
That's why you see "Kolmogorov complexity" being mentioned all around this thread. The "parsimony", the "simplicity", the unit in which we count entities - is that of Kolmogorov complexity. "A dozen different forces and laws and variables" is significantly simpler, Kolmogorov-wise, than a thinking entity. There is orders of magnitude less things to specify about the former than about the latter for a complete description.