From: Bryan Bishop (kanzure@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 16:20:49 MDT
On Thursday 18 October 2007 11:30, Nick Hay wrote:
> So systems of fixed complexity can both understand, and build
> understandable, systems of greater complexity than themselves.
Interesting implications. How would this be applied to say, the
universe? The universe is a complex system, and I always thought that
no system could completely understand itself without violating some
gödeleans (incompleteness or inconsistency).
When you first said "bridge," in a previous email, I thought you meant a
sort of theoretics-bridge to take a program of some complexity and then
have it breach past some finite complexity-production limit. Apparently
not. :)
It is also important to point out that no system can generate infinitely
more complex systems, implying that even if the universe is infinite
(do we argue this here? I hope not), that the accessibility of such
vastness is limited to our finite programs/designs/specifications.
- Bryan
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