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Does Information Theory Support Design in Nature?
- yters 8y agoThe basic idea is Shannon information says all bitstrings of length N are equally likely, but Kolmogorov complexity says the compressible bitstrings are less likely than the incompressible bitstrings. Therefore, when we see a highly compressible bitstring we infer some cause other than chance. E.g. if someone flips 100 heads in a row, you would be justified in thinking the coin is not fair. Dembski's work is a generalization of this observation.