On 27 March 2015 at 16:54, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It would take a vast amount of coding "by hand" to create a universe >> filling in details of miracles occurring at multiple arbitrary points, as >> opposed to an orderly universe with a few laws and initial conditions. > > > Not necessarily. Just insert a few (pseudo-)random numbers at strategic > points! I envisage the program generating the universe as analogous to the program generating the Madelbrot Set. If you modify the Mandelbrot program so that anomalies appear in a regular way that is analogous to a universe with unusual, but lawlike occurences. If you modify the Mandelbrot program so that anomalies appear in a truly random way that is analogous to a universe where miracles occur, and I think that program would have much higher Kolmogorov complexity, like a bitmap file of a visual representation of the Mandelbrot Set. > But, on the other hand, the UD runs all possible programs, so what > does it matter if a few are a bit complicated. :-) A justification for simpler programs having higher measure is discussed in Russell Standish' TON book. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
