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Re: Hardwired
Mar 09, 2006, 20:07
"This principle is part of epistemology, and can be motivated by the requirement of maximal simplicity of cognitive models. However, its significance might be extended to metaphysics if it is interpreted as saying that simpler models are more likely to be correct than complex ones, in other words, that "nature" prefers simplicity."

Well, yes and no would be my reply to that :-) Yes in so much as nature can be astonishingly simple in its response to a 'situation' but also astonishingly complex in the <i>variety</i> of its response.
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