But is the Occam’s Razor really circular? The hypothesis “there is no pattern” is strictly simpler than “there is this particular pattern”, for any value of ‘this particular’.. Occam’s Razor may expect simplicity in the world, but it is not the simplest strategy itself.
Edit: I’m talking about the hypothesis itself, as a logic sequence of some kind, not that, which the hypothesis asserts. It asserts maxentropy—the most complex world.
But is the Occam’s Razor really circular? The hypothesis “there is no pattern” is strictly simpler than “there is this particular pattern”, for any value of ‘this particular’.. Occam’s Razor may expect simplicity in the world, but it is not the simplest strategy itself.
Edit: I’m talking about the hypothesis itself, as a logic sequence of some kind, not that, which the hypothesis asserts. It asserts maxentropy—the most complex world.