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Isn't information theory a new way of thinking about time? Time, as change, is entropy, which, under certain formulations, is equal to uncomputability. In this
by jeromebaek 8y ago
Isn't information theory a new way of thinking about time? Time, as change, is entropy, which, under certain formulations, is equal to uncomputability. In this way we could think of the flow of time as the march of some arbitrary computation which cannot be computed in advance, that is, ignoring time.
- adrianN 8y agoWhat formulations equate entropy with uncomputability? That doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Do you have a reference that I could read?
- jeromebaek 8y agoIt is somewhat of a leap. However there are sensible formulations where it is pointed out that entropy is information, and "amount of uncomputability" is information in the sense that to know the output of an arbitrary Turing machine (which outputs either 0 or 1) one needs exactly one bit of information.