There is an urban myth floating about: "...Gram for gram, the brain is far and away the most complex object we know of in the universe,...." This is simply not...
... nervous ... the ... Because, this is the year 2005--the genome is where it's at. Every age finds its challenge in the world of experience. Yesterday it was...
... Are you speaking for yourself or humanity? I would accept this statement if applied to "Ray" but reject it if applied to humanity. What about as applied to...
... Do you have a specific measure of complexity in mind? How does one decide whether the brain or the genome is more complex? m -- "In theory, there is no...
... The genome is far more ... From Gary Marcus, "The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of the Human Mind", 2004, pg 153...
... Is that possible? An adult body contains a couple of trillion copies of g, is the result of myriad interactions between the environment and g, surrounds...
... No, it is not possible according to information theory. However, Ray had in mind, as John correctly pointed out, complexity density e.g. complexity per...
... I wonder how random the human genome is. I guess I should get more earthly curiosities, too :) Cheers, -- Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate. Comp. Sci....
... An interesting, important, and difficult question. IMHO. What can we say about it? I suppose it's about as random as the genomes for cats and cactus and...
Recall if you will that UCLA seminar announcement, where (just to make a liar out of me!) they now have posted that their initial reading will be of an article...
jrstern writes: " ... Only in the Never, Never Land of philosophy. I am of the opinion that writer of the original quote (the brain is the most complex etc.)...
... There is no randomness. The DNA is reproduced atom for atom, when the process works correctly. When it does not, there is a mutation--which is then...
... I agree in so far as "randomness" applies to quantum magical non- causal nonsense. But in my opinion, Chaitin gives a very good definition of randomness....
... I would expect the genome sequence to be only partially random as Joshua explained. Cheers, -- Eray Ozkural (exa), PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept.,...
... patiently. ... Thank you, Eray. Still, I am just a learner. ... Yes, I understood that later. I am sorry. ... system like ... consider ... Yes, of course. ...
I am just guessing, but I think that it may mean that it took 15 years for computer enthusiasts to really begin to understand the potential and the limits of...
Hi there, Let's say we wanted to have the most general theory of common sense possible, that is a theory of common sense that accounts not only for human-like...
... we ... Well, I'll be totally honest I don't know. But, I do know that there are DNA sequences which are known in full. For each of those known sequences...
... A,G,C,T ... by ... there ... compress ... me ... Sorry for replying to my own post... But I think I have an answer to my own question (at least a partial...
... As Chaitin points out, for biological evolution, reducing program size is not the only objective. Among others, it seems we need: - fault tolerance -...
... size ... Are you suggesting some type of (maybe golden) ratio of: - fault tolerance (redundancy) - efficiency (string length) If so I think were moving in...
... I don't want to get hung up on this, but I suppose efficiency would have to do with the computational resources required in addition to program size. ...
... I'm sure you're right but can we evaluate the "computational resources required" based on it's relation to "string length efficiency"? I hope I'm making...
There must be many high-order interactions here, between the evolution of the dna itself, how it is synthesized, decoded, and the costs of other 'marketing'...
... You are confusing randomness, compressability, and information content. Every string of length N has an equivalent (potential) information content...
... the ... because ... the ... Yes, these pairs and triplets are examples of context sensitive redundancy. If one of the four were statistically more...
... I ... comparison ... Well, I don't think that I am. But, these three terms are very tightly related to each other and it wouldn't surprise me too much to...
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