Original:   Plurality must never be posited without necessity.

Corollary: Never postulate a complexity when a simplicity will do.

Never postulate an ontologically existent entity when an emergent property will do

William of Occam's famous "razor" is often restated as KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid. It's a very helpful idea when seeking a deeper understanding of a situation.

I have formulated the above corollary (a statement which follows readily from a previous statement) which I have found useful. For example:

• Instead of Time, there's Change (Time is Only an Illusion)
• Instead of the Alayavijnana, there're Consciousnesses and Communication Protocols (The Alayavijnana Is Just Like the Internet)
• Instead of Dark Energy, the so called Constants are not really Constant (Dark Energy - NOT)
• Instead of God, there's Gravity (We Are Sunlight Animated Stardust)
• Instead of God, there's Evolution
• Instead of Entities, there're Limited Views of the Universe
• Instead of Entities, there're Conventions
• Instead of Entities, there're Streams of Interrelated, Dependently Originated Phenomena
• Instead of Nouns, there're Slow Moving Verbs
• Instead of Self, there's Self-Referential Sensing
• Instead of an Imortal Soul, there's Fear of Death plus Self-Referential Sensing (Divided Minds, Specious Souls)

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Leigh Brasington / / Revised 16 Apr 11