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- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.220716.130095@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- From: skroger@zeus.calpoly.edu (Seth L. Kroger)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:07:16 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.114458.10627@nic.funet.fi> <RBL3TB3w165w@kalki33>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us writes:
- >TMakinen writes:
- >> The theory contains not much information. The solutions contain huge or
- >> infinite amount of information. Meditate the quantum field theory to enlighte
- >> yourself about the difference between the theory and the solutions.
- >
- >Yes, the solutions have high information content, and this is because
- >the initial conditions or the boundary conditions have high information
- >content.
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- Then what's the information content of a Mandelbrot set?
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- > These conditions are not part of the laws themselves, but must
- >be stated explicitly. There must be a source of information to draw from
- >in order for a system of low "order" to appear to "evolve" to a system
- >of high "order. In the absence of laws with high information content,
- >that source must be the boundary or the initial state. This is standard
- >statistical mechanics, isn't it?
- >Kalki Dasa
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