Originally Posted by
fendrin
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Yes, but where's the fun in that?
To put it another way, what you are describing is one possibility; it is simpler, but not necessarily correct. The Rule of Parsimony (a.k.a. Okham's Razor) is a human preference, not a method for establishing fact.
For that matter, we have reason to call that into question: to do so seriously challenges the idea of free will, which is one of the issues that Parson is wrangling with. If we arbitrarily decide that one possible answer is true, then we reduce his philosophical angst to a Boolean value. I don;t know about you, but that kind of ruins the comic for me.