On Friday, March 27, 2015, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> 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. >> > > An algorithm for generating random numbers is fairly simple -- low > complexity. Pseudorandom, and such an algorithm would not give rise to observers. An algorithm that gives rise to observers whose heads miraculously explode now and then is more complex. > 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. > http://www.hpcoders.com.au/theory-of-nothing.pdf Chapter 4.2, "The White Rabbit Problem". -- 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.
