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> Specifically, the evidence is overwhelming that whatever the ultimate cause is, it is computationally simple, that is, its Kolmogorov complexity is small. Tha
by dvt 9y ago
> Specifically, the evidence is overwhelming that whatever the ultimate cause is, it is computationally simple, that is, its Kolmogorov complexity is small. That is fundamentally at odds with most people's conception of God.
The probability that the first cause (FC) is computable is basically zero, so it most likely won't have a Kolmogorov complexity. For example, not even entropy is computable[1][2], let alone FC.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.1678.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.1678.pdf
[2] https://www.math.iupui.edu/~mmisiure/open/JM1.pdf https://www.math.iupui.edu/~mmisiure/open/JM1.pdf
- lisper 9y agoI think that when you talk about the "first cause" you mean something different than what I mean when I say "ultimate cause." I'm not talking about what caused the Big Bang, I'm talking about what causes physics now. It is of course possible that whatever caused the big bang was computationally complex. There is no way to eliminate that possibility. But if it was, it left no evidence behind.