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It certainly has no obligation to appeal to our sensibilities...
by Retra 8y ago
It certainly has no obligation to appeal to our sensibilities...
- aalleavitch 8y agoOur sensibilities were created by selective pressures that are the direct result of the physical laws of this universe. I don’t think that’s a fluke. I think we are awed by mathematical beauty because it is just as fundamental and profound as it appears.
- antidesitter 8y agoAn objective* way to quantify the elegance and parsimony of a hypothesis is through algorithmic information theory, specifically Kolmogorov complexity. * Certain conditions apply.