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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.061345.10564@smds.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 06:13:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.002129.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <VZTHuB4w165w@kalki33>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- A person using the byline of kalki dasa writes:
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- >2) The information content of a theory or set of laws, which is the
- >length of the shortest computer program which will calculate solutions
- >to the equations of the theory to an arbitrary degree of accuracy.
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- Does this make sense to anyone out there? I understand information
- theory, at least as in the sense that it was originally used. I also
- am familiar enough with the Kolmogoroff definition of randomness of a
- finite symbol string. Neither fits this statement.
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- Since Chris Colby has caught me up short on molecular evolutionists,
- I am going to be cautious. Does anyone know of a context in which
- the quoted text makes sense?
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