Occam's Razor is a principle that states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.
The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (law of parsimony); "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".
Many times throughout our daily lives, we often tripped ourselves and drown into the depth of our own mind. We justify things to make ourselves feel better. Lying to ourselves finding reasons to convince ourselves that it is ok to take a bite of that cake, mistakenly delivered to your house.
Somebody had worked hard to make such a beautiful cake for someone and if you don't eat it, it will go to waste or your diabetic neighbour, who suppose to receive it and he's away for the weekend, would eat it and its not good for his health or your housemate is on a diet and you think you can be helpful by clearing it off the table before he sees it and can start drooling all over it.
The cake is not yours.
Maybe I should change to another better example? This metaphor sucks. Sigh.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to get to is, should you just leave the cake because its not yours, or just eat it because no one will and no one gets hurt (as far as you concern) and the best of all no one else knows except you and the cake, which is delicious and its all worth every bite whilst thinking that you're actually helping someone, or better off, making the world a better place.
Until your guilt conscious kicks in.
It's wrong, and we knew it right from the start. Yet we tried so hard finding reasons to convince ourselves that it may be right.
As Einstein once quoted, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler,".
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck - dude, it's a duck.
Damnit.
The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (law of parsimony); "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".
Source: Wikipedia
Many times throughout our daily lives, we often tripped ourselves and drown into the depth of our own mind. We justify things to make ourselves feel better. Lying to ourselves finding reasons to convince ourselves that it is ok to take a bite of that cake, mistakenly delivered to your house.
Somebody had worked hard to make such a beautiful cake for someone and if you don't eat it, it will go to waste or your diabetic neighbour, who suppose to receive it and he's away for the weekend, would eat it and its not good for his health or your housemate is on a diet and you think you can be helpful by clearing it off the table before he sees it and can start drooling all over it.
The cake is not yours.
Maybe I should change to another better example? This metaphor sucks. Sigh.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to get to is, should you just leave the cake because its not yours, or just eat it because no one will and no one gets hurt (as far as you concern) and the best of all no one else knows except you and the cake, which is delicious and its all worth every bite whilst thinking that you're actually helping someone, or better off, making the world a better place.
Until your guilt conscious kicks in.
It's wrong, and we knew it right from the start. Yet we tried so hard finding reasons to convince ourselves that it may be right.
As Einstein once quoted, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler,".
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck - dude, it's a duck.
Damnit.
4 comments:
what if it's someone in a halloween costume? u knw..dressed as a duck. tht doesnt make tht person a duck tho s/he may look,walk and quack like one :P
im making no point. just......well just. hehe
u are, in fact, making a point.
eheh. its just a way to see things. there're many other perspectives to choose from to make u feel better. pataphysics, murphy's law, empiricism, etc.
i google too much. sheesh.
You could just use the Keep It Simple Stupid theory.
i feel more sophisticated quoting occam's. heheh :D
Post a Comment