Sorry for the minor ad hominem, I jumped to the conclusion based on prior experience.
We can generate explanations for anything. Science has found that the universe appears to operate on a universal set of underlying principles—everything reduces to physics. We could have lived in a universe where this wasn’t so. But we don’t.
The computer I am working on right now is solid proof of physic’s success.
When you have two theories (algorithms) that both accurately prediction an observation sequence, you need some other criteria to guide you—and here ockham’s razor comes in to play.
There are always an infinite number of more complex theories that explain a series of observations, but only one that is minimally simple.
But again, I think the universality of physics stems just from the simple fact that there are an infinite number of algorithms (theories) that can explain any possible sequence of observations—so universality is always possible.
Sorry for the minor ad hominem, I jumped to the conclusion based on prior experience.
We can generate explanations for anything. Science has found that the universe appears to operate on a universal set of underlying principles—everything reduces to physics. We could have lived in a universe where this wasn’t so. But we don’t.
The computer I am working on right now is solid proof of physic’s success.
When you have two theories (algorithms) that both accurately prediction an observation sequence, you need some other criteria to guide you—and here ockham’s razor comes in to play.
There are always an infinite number of more complex theories that explain a series of observations, but only one that is minimally simple.
But again, I think the universality of physics stems just from the simple fact that there are an infinite number of algorithms (theories) that can explain any possible sequence of observations—so universality is always possible.