Re: Cosmology and Boltzmann brains

From: Russell Standish <lists.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:18:35 +1000

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:24:21PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote:
> > scientific theories (doing so by definition). The reason it is
> > rejected is because of the arbitrary nature of the date makes it a
> > more complex theory (in the Occam's razor sense).
>
> And it is not POVI.
>
> Brent Meeker
>

True, but then POVI is a specialised version of Occams razor.

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