Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 27 March 2015 at 16:54, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> 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.
An algorithm for generating random numbers is fairly simple -- low
complexity.
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.
Which I don't have. Since it is not standard, explain it simply for me.
Bruce
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