That’s a useful demonstration of the intuition behind “simpler is more plausible”. Still, if it were possible to know that your jury-rigged-setup story were everywhere and always (not just up-til-now) empirically equivalent to MWI or whatever, then I’d really bite the bullet and call it absolutely equivalent.
That’s a useful demonstration of the intuition behind “simpler is more plausible”. Still, if it were possible to know that your jury-rigged-setup story were everywhere and always (not just up-til-now) empirically equivalent to MWI or whatever, then I’d really bite the bullet and call it absolutely equivalent.
Fair enough. Incidentally, if you’re looking for a rigorous justification of Occam’s razor, the best one I know of is Kevin Kelly’s.