RE: many worlds theory of immortality

From: Hal Finney <hal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:46:09 -0700 (PDT)

Jonathan Colvin writes:
> Pondering on this, it raises an interesting question. Can we differentiate
> between worlds that are (or appear to be) rule-based, and those that are
> purely random?

The usual approach is that a system which is algorithmically compressible
is defined as random. A rule-based universe has a short program that
determines its evolution, or creates its state. A random universe has
no program much smaller than itself which can encode its information.

Hal Finney
Received on Mon May 09 2005 - 19:18:11 PDT