Patterns, Randomness and Information
author: Gregory Chaitin,
University of Auckland
published: Feb. 25, 2007, recorded: October 2005, views: 12273
published: Feb. 25, 2007, recorded: October 2005, views: 12273
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Information, Complexity, Patterns, Randomness and Compression. And how these ideas can be traced back through Hermann Weyl to Leibniz in 1686, and connect them with Godel & Turing and with the question of how math compares & contrasts with physics and with biology.
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The audio doesn't work in the first recorded lecture!
Hello, the video file has been fixed and the flash file added, so enjoy the viewing.
enthused..yes
elegant...no
well worth the watch
however care is needed in slipping into "metamath'
a set of mathematicians is not a mathematician
...patternless in one language.. compressionable in another
random on one computer...not on another
But , it is all worthwhile
Would this have consequences for SETI...could we miss deliberate ETI because it appeared random but was not?
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