Re: Stephen Wolfram vs. Charles Darwin on natural selection

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:07:25 -0500 (EST), dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(DK) wrote:

In article <genapp$2h1e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dkomo <dkomo871@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Tyler wrote:

dkomo wrote:


Richard Dawkins proposed that a rough measure of complexity for an organism
is the length of its description. [...]


That's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
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LOL.

"Incomputability of Kolmogorov complexity

Which is, in a way, is fine. That leaves us with the best
consensus definition of complexity there is: I know one when
I see one :-) Which isn't that different from the equally
fundamental concepts such as "beauty"...


The original "I know it when I see it" wasn't quite applied to
"beauty", although that latter concept indeed does lie in the eyes
(or the libido) of the beholder.


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