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Occam's Razor (for trimming philosophical explanations)

To explain everything requires trimming.
What are the most basic explanations
Of this diverse universe just brimming
With the knowledge of scientific explorations?

Using Occam's Razor, let us begin.
What to me are the most basic things?
That we can't unscramble an egg I contend
Shows purpose in what time passage brings.

Matter-in-motion only moves one way.
Changing forms of every kind are organized
Into motions with purposes they obey
Which requires intelligence to be recognized.

Therefore there are reasons for everything
(As there are for all the things we create).
Some help us while some destruction bring,
But each fulfills its purpose for its own sake.

The most basic universal thing is purpose then.
Intelligence must be present to account for it.
All pervasive time enfolds all purpose when
Everything that happens is doing its bit.

Plato recognized the significance of forms,
Which everything in the universe has.
Hobbs saw motion in all nature's norms,
Matter-in-motion; that's energy and mass.

What we have here is a means to communicate!
What we have here is organized forms with purpose (Plato)
Forms of matter-in-motion, as seen by Hobbs, at any rate.
Time now for us to get out our play dough!


Author notes

I thank cricketjeff for saving and finding this poem for me, which existed only in a Comment by me to his poem, "The way things are" http://allpoetry.com/poem/4814577#

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  • jake x x x
    August 17

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    love it!

    this is such an amazing poem i love it! it makes you think so much! i love how you fused philosophy and poetry together and made it rhyme very well so it doesnt feel forced amazing


  • Gwenevere
    August 10
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    As the song goes. a time for every purpose under heaven.A very interesting read again.Well done, Ros


  • Melodies
    August 6

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    Oh, Ellis, this write you have penned is so very smart and bears out the existence of a higher power, for nothing is just by accident. Glad Cricketjeff had your poem.