On Friday, March 27, 2015, Bruce Kellett <bhkell...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 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. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
