Wednesday, December 10, 2014

It's complicated.

Some people equate complexity with randomness/disorder because of algorithmic information is also called complexity.

Small probabilities tend to represent a highly select, unusual chain of contingencies.  In the bean machine, the lefts vs. rights taken by the beans will have a more ordered structure at the tail ends.   This low algorithmic information in tail-end result represents a path whose description has low algorithmic information.

How many things must go just right (or just wrong) to get the unusual result?  It is highly contingent.  Maybe specified contingency is a better phrase?

"Entanglement."
                                     

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