Psychohistorian comments on Parapsychology: the control group for science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 07 December 2009 04:25:40AM 3 points [-]

This is because the system of rules governing a video game and the system governing a deterministic universe appear to be very, very different.

An artificial dichotomy.

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Comment author: Pavitra 07 December 2009 05:22:15AM 0 points [-]

You mean, besides the predictive power of the mathematical formalizations of Occam's Razor, as opposed to a linguistic or pathetic formulation?

The universe looks very falsifiably like a computer program.