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> We'd probably share Occam's razor. I already disagree here. Simplicity is a heuristic in the brain. Like all heuristics it helps you solve some problems easi
by machina_ex_deus 4y ago
> We'd probably share Occam's razor.
I already disagree here. Simplicity is a heuristic in the brain. Like all heuristics it helps you solve some problems easier, but behind the word stands the entire life experience of someone, and whatever is "simpler" depends on way too many human things in his life. "Simple" is something human. So is Occam's razor.
- Tao3300 4y agoIt's not we exactly "simplicity". If you have two explanations arriving at identical results, take the one with less assumptions. It's helpful to look at it the other way around. Thomas Aquinas worded his version of it: > it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. There's a subtle difference, and that's probably why we see it called the parsimony principle instead of the simplicity principle. The point being not to have nonessential crap hanging off your theory -- provided you've established that it's genuinely nonessential.