> Yes but the everything universe has the shortest algorithm, containing just
> one bit of information. The sub-universes do not need algorithms, just the
> WAP.
Ah! The point is: the information content of a particular universe U is
the length of the shortest algorithm that computes U AND NOTHING ELSE.
But the shortest algorithm for everything computes all the other universes
too. Hence it does not convey the information about U by itself!
Everything conveys much less info than most particular computable
objects. More is less. But to calculate the probability of a particular
universe you need to look at its particular algorithms, of course, not
at the collective probability of all universes.
Juergen
Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 08:55:34 PDT
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