Occam's razor is the search heuristic with bottommost priority. It works well because it's easier to falsify simpler things than more complex things. It's a tec

Occam's razor is the search heuristic with bottommost priority. It works well because it's easier to falsify simpler things than more complex things. It's a technique to avoid adding epicycles and not very effective further up from there. If you have other reasons to believe a more complex hypothesis may be likely those should generally override Occam's Razor.