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- From: ken@iat.holonet.net (Ken Easlon)
- Subject: Re: God's Compression (was: Re: Compressing decimal expansion of pi...)
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:45:59 GMT
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- In article <1hvhqhINNkg8@uwm.edu> ,
- markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) writes:
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- >In this way, an algorithm is proven to exist that will compress everything
- >that has or will ever exist to 256 bits.
-
- I agree if you change the "everything" to "anything". Any one object (or
- action or principal, etc) can be uniquely tagged with it's own 256 bit
- name. When you start talking combinations of the named elements, then you
- need sentences composed of these 32 byte words.
-
- Granted you can probably name each actual sentence, paragraph, usenet
- article, etc with it's own 32 byte word, but naming it doesn't explain the
- meaning. You simply use the name to call up a mental program, which puts
- the named data into some kind of perspective that makes it useful in
- carrying out the functions of life.
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- If you gave me the choice of two jobs with the same pay, one where I had to
- write programs and debug them, and one where I only had to come up with a
- unique identifier for each program that you write, guess which job I would
- take.
-
- >If survival is a function of intelligence then I can pose the question
- >"how do I survive" as the one being answered.
-
- That's exactly the question. The answer can be named with 256 bits, but it
- can't be taught or learned with 256 bits, and even when the answer is
- learned, it still has to be applied. Data that doesn't have the potential
- for meaningful use isn't meaningful.
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