“Then the “Kolmogorov complexity” of that entire universe—throughout all of space and all of time, from the Big Bang to whatever end, and all the life forms that ever evolved on Earth and all the decoherent branches of Earth and all the life-bearing planets anywhere, and all the intelligences that ever devised galactic civilizations, and all the art and all the technology and every machine ever built by those civilizations...would be 500 bits.”
I must be missing something… what exactly do you mean by the phrase “the ‘complexity’ of that entire universe… would be 500 bits.”
I would think the “complexity of the universe” would include the location of every bit of matter at all times, among other things. So, maybe I just don’t understand what you mean by the “complexity of” something.
Also, I’m not sure whether you believe that all human behavior is purely deterministic in the most extreme sense. Or, do you think people can actually make their own decisions, i.e., “free will”? Obviously, if someone can turn either left or right at any given time, then that decision is still not explained (in any predictive sense) by the laws of physics.
Wouldn’t the 500 bits have to include understanding all psychological/economic behavior?
“Then the “Kolmogorov complexity” of that entire universe—throughout all of space and all of time, from the Big Bang to whatever end, and all the life forms that ever evolved on Earth and all the decoherent branches of Earth and all the life-bearing planets anywhere, and all the intelligences that ever devised galactic civilizations, and all the art and all the technology and every machine ever built by those civilizations...would be 500 bits.”
I must be missing something… what exactly do you mean by the phrase “the ‘complexity’ of that entire universe… would be 500 bits.”
I would think the “complexity of the universe” would include the location of every bit of matter at all times, among other things. So, maybe I just don’t understand what you mean by the “complexity of” something.
Also, I’m not sure whether you believe that all human behavior is purely deterministic in the most extreme sense. Or, do you think people can actually make their own decisions, i.e., “free will”? Obviously, if someone can turn either left or right at any given time, then that decision is still not explained (in any predictive sense) by the laws of physics.
Wouldn’t the 500 bits have to include understanding all psychological/economic behavior?