A. It should be mentioned that this "Induction Problem"
("Why would things work in the future as in the past, more probably than in some other way")
(or actually the criticism of the Induction Hypothesis)
is due to the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and liberal David Hume.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Problem_of_induction
B. Why do our brains trust in Occam's Razor or in induction (that things work in the future as in the past, ...)?
Because the universe behaved that way in the past, so most brains working in another way were eliminated in natural selection.
So our belief is not a piece of evidence, just a repetition of the fact (?) that IN THE PAST Occam's Razor worked, i.e., that the "natural laws"... (read 426 more words →)
A. It should be mentioned that this "Induction Problem" ("Why would things work in the future as in the past, more probably than in some other way") (or actually the criticism of the Induction Hypothesis) is due to the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and liberal David Hume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Problem_of_induction
B. Why do our brains trust in Occam's Razor or in induction (that things work in the future as in the past, ...)? Because the universe behaved that way in the past, so most brains working in another way were eliminated in natural selection. So our belief is not a piece of evidence, just a repetition of the fact (?) that IN THE PAST Occam's Razor worked, i.e., that the "natural laws"... (read 426 more words →)