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Stephen Wolfram Q&A, For Kids (and others) [March 5, 2021]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Is There a Principal Reason Why Ocham's Razor Should Work?

Is it the very elaborate explanation, or is it the simpler explanation? Thits kind of like when you wonder, why did something happen in the world? Was it a giant conspiracy that involved all these different moving parts, or was it just, oh, somebody made a mistake, and so that's why it happened. Different fields ther different intuitions that tend to work. For example, in medicine, it's often the case that things are just very, very complicated in explaining what's going on in medicine.

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