On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 7:36 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:20 AM Tomas Pales <litewav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1:54:29 AM UTC+2 Bruce wrote: >> >>> >>> How do you know that? Or is it just an arbitrary assumption? If it is >>> just an assumption, your initial question is without content. >>> >> >> It is in Russell's book on page 58 (universal prior), with reference to >> equation 2.1 (complexity). >> > > > Much as I respect Russell, his book is not an authoritative source for > anything. It is all rampant speculation. > On the matter of the stability of laws and the connection with simplicity, > I refer you to the 'grue/bleen' paradox introduced by Nelson Goodman. That > shows that the idea of simplicity as an explanation for anything is > misplaced. > It's not just Russell, and it's no longer just rampant speculation. The assumption of our existence within an infinite ensemble of computations distributed according to the precepts algorithmic information theory makes many predictions for the properties of physical universes. So far, of the predictions we can and have tested, all such predictions have been experimentally/observationally confirmed: For an overview of this evidence see: https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/#Confirming_Evidence We can now say: why we have laws, where laws come from, why they're stable, why they're maximally simple (while suited for us), why they're quantum mechanical, and why we inhabit a universe that evolves over time and which has a point of maximal simplicity in it's past. Wheeler, Hawking, Davies, etc. were also all working down this same path of tying together the observer with the observed in a tightly coupled mutual interrelation and interdependence. See Eheeler's participatory universe, Hawking's top down physics, and Davies's Flexi-Laws. Jason -- 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/CA%2BBCJUisoq8P8OpuoHMu0HMGLT2Gz8xrLnWkZL6%2B%2BFjAuSHi8Q%40mail.gmail.com.
