Lena Luthor just wants to do the science (quantized) wrote in valarnet, @ 2017-07-04 18:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | evie frye, garcian smith, kitty pryde (shadowcat), lena luthor, logan echolls, luthien tinuviel |
Filtered away from Asami and Korra
I've always found Occam's Razor to be the most interesting of principles. Not just the law of parsimony, though it's saved me many sleepless nights. No, I mean the philosophy. The idea that the simplest of two ideas could and should be considered the correct one every time just never sat well with me, even as I saw how it worked, almost every time. In a world as complex as ours, with the consideration of emotions so extreme and illogical that they obey no law, how could that posssibly be true?
Today I get it. If someone disappears, is it more likely that they were kidnapped by someone they knew, or abducted by aliens? If a person is poor, is it more likely that it was a matter of circumstances, or meritoriousness? If one keeps losing those they care for, is it more likely that it's something to do with them, or with every single person that left them?
The simple solution is always the likely one. No matter how astoundingly unfair that may seem.
In unrelated news, I'm going drinking tonight, family be damned. Who's coming with me?