. . . ever broadening . . .
guilty as charged.
One of my friends—American—in Taipei learned to avoid asking me to edit my writings to condense them. They’d always end up ENLARGED.
Hey—I was a librarian for 6 years. I collect info and puzzle pieces like a pack rat!
I wait for clusters to appear!
Sometimes, I dink around clustering . . . but mostly I wait for clusters to appear.
I love massive amounts of info.
I collected over 1,000 . . . I think it was 1,004 or 1,024 or some such variables for my PhD dissertation and analyzed only 4 of them for the Dissertation. LOL.
I think Occams razor has some utility but is often over-rated.
Those options you listed are all well represented in the literature. And none of them, to my 47 years of study, have taken the lead.
That’s just the state of our information collection. I don’t think Occam’s razor is going to change that—reliably—in any respect.
From my Christian perspective, I’d say that the spiritual dimension HAS to be a big factor. Has to be.
Beyond that—it’s quite a muddled bunch of data.
Certainly the secularists will likely insist that inter-galactic, etc. are all involved. And they COULD BE.
I’d be surprised if there were NO inter-galactic etc. But it COULD all be a charade on that score. I just don’t think it 100% is a charade on that score.
my 2 cents.