On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 7:43 AM Tomas Pales <litewav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *> this world is more simple if its regularities (such as laws of physics) > continue than if they are discontinued, and simple worlds are more likely > (more frequent in the collection of all possible worlds) than more complex > worlds. (A simpler property is instantiated in a greater number of possible > worlds than a more complex property.)* > If everything in the universe was completely random then there would be no laws of physics, so to describe the universe you'd not only have to describe exactly what every single particle and photon in it was doing now but what they would be doing in every instance in the future; in such a world inductive logic would be of no help in figuring this out. I suppose in that way the fundamental laws of physics can be thought of as data compression algorithms, and since we know that induction is very useful in figuring things out such laws must exist, but the question is, are any of the laws of physics that we call fundamental really fundamental? John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> u2x -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1%2Bx4-kbL5oWCfHCM%3De%2BVh7mMLftA7Wc34CCX8yLHkExQ%40mail.gmail.com.
