a taste for desert landscapes

This blog is for the free discussion of anything that has to do with the mind, evolution, realism, philosophy, or anything else the administrator finds interesting and/or any reader suggests.

Please do not hesitate to add your own comments. The administrator thinks that free discussion and disagreement are the lifeblood of philosophy and science, and that appeals to authority are the death of both of the above. 

The blog is entitled a taste for desert landscapes because the administrator takes Occam’s Razor seriously. Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity. A complicated abstract theory is less likely to be true than a simple abstract theory, and it is certain to be less profound. Complication is only legitimate in technological fields such as science, mathematics and engineering.

(The great American philosopher WVO Quine famously expressed a similar thought by declaring, “I have a taste for desert landscapes.”)

I invite anyone and everyone to freely disagree with me, as long as you do not appeal to authority to make your case.