Simple world
peace,
I would like to ask a question that is bothering me.
The principle of simplicity is a fundamental principle, and some would say the only one, behind our way of drawing conclusions. When two explanations explain the same facts, we choose the simpler explanation.
So it is in science and so it is in law.
The question arises, can reality be explained as dualism – material and spiritual.
Or that the whole of reality and matter is part of a multi-player mental dimension (as in a computer game or a dream, the material is mental).
There is a religious doctor on the Internet who claims that much of modern physics supports this.
I wanted to ask you, if they both explain the same works, why not choose it. It sounds strange but it is simpler. Are they really so? The first intuition and the educated person think that this is complete nonsense, but can it be refuted?
You are wrong about Occam’s razor. See columns 502 and 674.
In column 674 I meant my answer in the talkbacks there: https://mikyab.net/posts/89524/#comment-88216
For some reason I remember there was a column in which I detailed the failures in using the razor principle, but now I can't find it.
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https://mikyab.net/posts/74050/
Which is ridiculous. For some reason it eluded me.
I'm not sure the discussion there is relevant here. My argument here is that choosing an explanation based on its simplicity refines a definition of simplicity. This is not determined only by the number of entities assumed but also by a priori plausibility.
And it should be added that the solipsistic assumption is even simpler because it requires branched mechanisms of hallucination and illusion. And in terms of the number of entities, cognitive entities are also entities for the purpose of this discussion.
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I sincerely apologize for the lack of response. I have not had access to the site in recent days, there was some kind of glitch in entering data here, but I would be happy to continue from here, and I believe that I will have access in the coming days.
You wrote that the concept of simplicity must first be defined, which depends on a priori probability. But the principle of simplicity assumes that all entities have the same a priori probability, and therefore it is always better to choose as small a number of entities as possible, provided that it explains all things.
The assumption that matter is also part of a mental dimension does not distil branched illusionary mechanisms. We never see the thing itself, as in a dream one can imagine ground — there is no reason to assume that the eyes do not see the ground in a mental dimension. Intuition is also part of the mental.
The scientific perception in our time is also that matter itself is not necessarily in a ”solid state” but it can exist as waves or as a field of possibilities. They are also not from the original commence.
If so, why would the simplicity that can be assumed according to the principles of philosophy not lead us to the conclusion that matter and every phenomenon in the world is an expression of “consciousness”, whether as an interaction between the mental entities operating in our world.
Can you answer seriously one more time? (And for the last time)
I don't see what needs to be answered. I've answered everything.
I don't know what to add about the mistake you wrote. Maybe a quote from you will help: {My argument here is that choosing an explanation based on its simplicity refines the definition of simplicity. This is not determined only by the number of entities assumed but also by a priori plausibility}!!
But it is clear that the principle of simplicity gives all explanations the same a priori plausibility, and among them I recommend choosing the simple explanation.
Otherwise we would not use it but assume what is wanted and that's it.
All this if the explanations fully explain what is happening. If this does not indeed hold, then the principle of simplicity is not valid, but that is not the case here. That a multi-participant mental dimension explains everything exactly like dualism.
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