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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <4PkFuB11w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 05:38:02 EST
- References: <1992Nov17.220716.130095@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- skroger@zeus.calpoly.edu (Seth L. Kroger) writes:
-
- > 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 enlig
- > >> 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.
- >
- > Then what's the information content of a Mandelbrot set?
-
- Infinite because the Turing machine needed to generate it will never
- stop. But actual Mandelbrot sets do not exist in the physical world. An
- approximation to the Mandelbrot set, such as those which run on personal
- computers, will have a finite information content equal to the number of
- bits in the program used to generate it.
-
- Anything that is recursively defined over an infinite domain will have
- infinite information content. (Counterexamples??)
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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