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Isn't everything[1] thermodynamic evidence of algorithmic structure of nature? When you have intial conditions (big bang, fundamental constants) and dynamical
by meroes 6y ago
Isn't everything[1] thermodynamic evidence of algorithmic structure of nature?
When you have intial conditions (big bang, fundamental constants) and dynamical laws (physics), everything is an algorithmic construction to some degree, at least according to physics as we know it (i.e. who knows what's truly fundamental).
[1] Not eveything is governmed by thermodynamics like initial conditions of the big bang, fundamental constants being the values they are.
- LolWolf 6y agoWell, every closed, Markovian system is governed by thermodynamics in a rather specific mathematical sense [0]; but yes I agree that initial conditions and parameters (such as constants) are not, but the dynamics themselves are. Unless our assumption about Markovian dynamics is wrong, in which case it’s not even clear we can make useful predictions from such a theory. ——— [0] see, e.g., https://guille.site/second-law-markov.html https://guille.site/second-law-markov.html or Cover’s own textbook.