Did you mean to say a system *not* algorithmically compressible is defined
as random?
--Stathis Papaioannou
>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
>
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Received on Mon May 09 2005 - 21:29:11 PDT