"Spirits are animated by a hand operating from a shadow immune to illumination. A hand whose description demands answer to a number of questions so large that all matter in the visible universe would not constitute sufficient material for representation.
Is it likely that this is our universe?"
Anecdotally. Personally. This lines up pretty well with my own experience of my self. I seem to be living in a story that could never possibly be written down in its entirety, yet it is as complete as anything can be.
What are your thoughts on the field of algorithmic / information-theoretical cosmology?
The stuff I've read about a universal prior pointing to simple laws sounds reasonable to me (Solomonoff/Tegmark/Schmidhuber), and nicely 'retrodicts' the kind of universe we find ourselves in, with a Standard Model that more or less fits on a t-shirt.
Just because the hamiltonian has an astonishing number of numbers in it doesn't necessarily mean it can't have low Kolmogoroff, and be generated by a trivial program!
OTOH, if your point is "we don't know if any of this simplicity stuff is true, and if not, then the laws might be so complex that they can't be represented in-Universe", then yeah, that seems to be what the physics says.
"Spirits are animated by a hand operating from a shadow immune to illumination. A hand whose description demands answer to a number of questions so large that all matter in the visible universe would not constitute sufficient material for representation.
Is it likely that this is our universe?"
Anecdotally. Personally. This lines up pretty well with my own experience of my self. I seem to be living in a story that could never possibly be written down in its entirety, yet it is as complete as anything can be.
Always great stuff
Thanks Mario!
Big. Very Big.
What are your thoughts on the field of algorithmic / information-theoretical cosmology?
The stuff I've read about a universal prior pointing to simple laws sounds reasonable to me (Solomonoff/Tegmark/Schmidhuber), and nicely 'retrodicts' the kind of universe we find ourselves in, with a Standard Model that more or less fits on a t-shirt.
Just because the hamiltonian has an astonishing number of numbers in it doesn't necessarily mean it can't have low Kolmogoroff, and be generated by a trivial program!
OTOH, if your point is "we don't know if any of this simplicity stuff is true, and if not, then the laws might be so complex that they can't be represented in-Universe", then yeah, that seems to be what the physics says.