> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mahoney via AGI [mailto:[email protected]] > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:44 PM, John Rose via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > The k-complexity of a single bacterium’s molecular disassemblage has > greater magnitude than that of OpenCyc’s ontological delineated totality. > > > > Yea or nay? > > OpenCyc 4.0 has 239,000 terms and 2,093,000 triples according to > http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc > ReserachCyc has 500,000 concepts and 5,000,000 assertions. Each assertion, > expressed as a triple encoding 3 concepts at log(500,000) = > 19 bits each would be 300M bits. Assuming a Zipf or power law distribution > over the concepts would probably allow the database to be compressed to > 150M bits. > > The genome of E. Coli is 4M base pairs or 8M bits assuming no compression > (it compresses poorly). >
The genome is a starter for estimating an organisms complexity. But I would suggest as a genome is "injected" into an environment as a living agent the complexity increases possibly even dramatically. Hypothetically is my identical twin who is a world renowned polymath verses me a lifelong alcoholic hermit is our k-complexity the same? There is a difference from genomic to present state complexity after flushing out the "code" into a full organism and performing computational operation with the environment. I think 8M might be way too small even with junk in the genome. And the power of microbial intelligence is based on inter-agent communication, self-organization, cooperation, collective/swarm intelligence, ability to mutate, etc.. So how does the complexity scale as bacterial population scales? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_intelligence Then looking at Cyc's complexity it's difficult to judge since the pure data value is not as important as it's interrelational operability in human interactions so a purely k-complexity view doesn't reflect informational value perhaps... John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
