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We don’t know that. It might as well be that the laws we know just are good simple approximations to something much more complex.
by Ma8ee 6y ago
We don’t know that. It might as well be that the laws we know just are good simple approximations to something much more complex.
- BurningFrog 6y agoOne way to think about it is that elementary particles are so extremely small that they can't have that much complexity. Entirely unprovable intuitive reasoning, I know. But I think there is something to it.
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- RhysU 6y agoIf it is complex but can be described simply, Ockham's Razor says it is simple.
- Ma8ee 6y agoNo, that is a misunderstanding of Ockham’s razor. If a simpler explanation explains all known phenomena, then of course, choose the simpler explanation. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any unknown phenomena that the simpler explanation can’t explain that forces us to choose a more complicated explanation later. Ockham’s razor doesn’t say anything about reality. It only says anything about which model of reality we should choose given a set of known phenomena.