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Yep, applied to problem of other minds basically
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I was gonna say, that sounds like systems preferring the macrostate composed of the most microstates.
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aka "Principle of Maximum Entropy".
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A hypothesis of a space with some attributes implies the possibility of permutations of that space and those attributes. Then given that one has observed only one’s own state, there is a dichotomy where one’s own state, if unique, can’t be explained in terms of anything else.
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I agree with this. It’s not incompatible with Occam’s Razor. Occams’s Razor favors the simplest explanations, which isn’t the same as the smallest universe with the least stuff in it. Example: Simplest QM explanation (Everett) means huge number of parallel universes. That’s OK.
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Salient maxim, although I wonder if you’ve got a little too much time on your hands. Then again, I recently wrote the attached in response to someone tweeting her desire to sue a gerbil (reus brutorum) Ergo, I lack room to talk.
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Although it has some flavor of Gödel’s theorem thrown in
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