Compression is a purely mathematical function. The question of whether mathematics can exist independent of a physical universe was addressed by Plato. Like most philosophical questions, it depends on the meanings of words like "exist".
I realize that real computers, unlike Turing machines, have finite speed and memory and nonzero error rates, although you can make the error rate arbitrarily close to 0 by using error correction and redundancy. That is all irrelevant to the fact that there is a sharp boundary between lossy and lossless. The compression function is either 1 to 1 or it's not. Ideally the function maps strings to the shortest programs that output them. The vast majority of mappings are to programs of about the same length. Only an exponentially tiny fraction of inputs are actually compressed. The more interesting question is why that miniscule subset is the one that contains most of the strings that are of interest to us. On Mon, Nov 8, 2021, 12:00 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, November 05, 2021, at 9:53 PM, keghnfeem wrote: > > When you sample data near the quantum, above absolute zero, it can take > hours to detect a signal that is, > above the nose, which is data. > > > Yes, also there is the issue of time in entanglement detection. > Engineering efforts are underway to reduce that. > > It may be fatalist to say that there will always be loss but it seems true > that we can only delay the inevitable from occurring. Though evolution > relies on error as do forms of learning. And to improve transmission > reliability we add error checking and correction but does that create > brittleness and reduce flexibility? > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-Mc4c51c46b70679b3321b5809> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5ff6237e11d945fb-M479a38dca9b0b6785b395c90 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
