88. Beautiful Science
Undeceptions with John Dickson
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The Bias Towards Simplicity
If you look at the output of monkeys typing onto a typewriter, then every string of a certain length will be equally likely unlikely. If you're typing into a computer program, there are some simple programs that can generate long outputs and they have typically ordered Outputs. So, what I'm saying is many things in our world are not just like random numbers thrown on the ground. There's something that comes out of some process. Evolution is an algorithm process. Our minds are using algorithm processes and many things in nature are now algorithm processes. Contrary to the expectations of some, science and theism are peas in a pod. Intellectually speaking, they both depend on orderliness. The
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