This is a guest post by one of my readers, Mason Green, in which he aims to provide a novel argument for the existence of God within the framework of Ray Solomonoff’s theory of inductive inference. The argument (and the background knowledge it presumes) is outside my field of expertise. But it will definitely be […]
kolmogorov complexity
Kolmogorov complexity, conjunction rules, and the burden of proof
The other day in our discussion of burdens of proof Robert recalled the time when he “asked Luke Muehlhauser why we should exclude supernatural agents from our worldview.” Luke replied like this: “If someone is going to add something with such high Kolmogorov complexity as non-physical minds to their ontology, they’d better have a really […]
