Re: Occam's Razor now published

2004-01-27 Thread Bruno Marchal 
Congratulation Russell, I am very happy for you, it did take some time, 
isn't it?

Best regards,

Bruno



At 15:16 27/01/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote:
A brief heads up that my paper Why Occam's Razor will appear in the
June issue of Foundations of Physics Letters. The full reference is:
Standish, R.K. (2004) ``Why Occam's Razor'' Foundations of Physics
Letters, 17, 255-266.
Cheers


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Re: Occam's Razor now published

2004-01-27 Thread Saibal Mitra 
Congratulations!

B.t.w., I don't like the doublespaced version on
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0001020




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Re: Occam's Razor now published

2004-01-27 Thread Norman Samish 
Why Occam's Razor can be viewed at
http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks/docs/occam/
 The abstract:
Ensemble theories have received a lot of interest recently as a means of
explaining a lot of the detailed complexity observed in reality by a vastly
simpler description ``every possibility exists'' and a selection principle
(Anthropic Principle) ``we only observe that which is consistent with our
existence''. In this paper I show why, in an ensemble theory of the
universe, we should be inhabiting one of the elements of that ensemble with
least information content that satisfies the anthropic principle. This
explains the effectiveness of aesthetic principles such as Occam's razor in
predicting usefulness of scientific theories. I also show, with a couple of
reasonable assumptions about the phenomenon of consciousness, the linear
structure of quantum mechanics can be derived. 

- Original Message - 
 At 15:16 27/01/04 +1100, Russell Standish wrote:
 A brief heads up that my paper Why Occam's Razor will appear in the
 June issue of Foundations of Physics Letters. The full reference is:
 
 Standish, R.K. (2004) ``Why Occam's Razor'' Foundations of Physics
 Letters, 17, 255-266.
 

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Occam's Razor now published

2004-01-26 Thread Russell Standish 
A brief heads up that my paper Why Occam's Razor will appear in the
June issue of Foundations of Physics Letters. The full reference is:

Standish, R.K. (2004) ``Why Occam's Razor'' Foundations of Physics
Letters, 17, 255-266.

Cheers


A/Prof Russell Standish  Director
High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967, 8308 3119 (mobile)
UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax   9385 6965, 0425 253119 ()
Australia[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Room 2075, Red Centrehttp://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks
International prefix  +612, Interstate prefix 02



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