> The universe doesn't need to begin as a long movie with all frames
already made. It just has to let physics roll out on its own.

There is more to the universe than physics though. There truly is.

> Lossless compression is ALREADY lossy compression, because after
compression, the data is missing, until you decompress it.

That's super quotable. I'm still laughing

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 23:17, <[email protected]> wrote:

> The universe doesn't need to begin as a long movie with all frames already
> made. It just has to let physics roll out on its own. We can test this in a
> computer simulation. The universe generates the "missing data". The
> universe starts off lossy, but by the end, it's lossless and has ALL data
> in a file. Or brain. So while it seems like a lossy file cannot become
> lossless, it can. Lossy kicks lossless in the butt. And we can simulate
> this on a future computer. Self-regeneration works as the best compressor
> (Physics is). Re-use/ recognition/ patterns/ superposition is everywhere in
> the universe, things pull together and fill in missing data e.g. dead
> employees. "Understanding"/ "recognizing" allows filling in missing data
> using other related data.
>
> Lossless compression is ALREADY lossy compression, because after
> compression, the data is missing, until you decompress it. As for "Lossy
> compression", it may result in words missing, however a human can add them
> back, so even Lossy compression results in the data back. See, same result.
> It auto-regenerates.
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