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Minor lightbulb went off in my head: you might be interested in slide 17 here, from a presentation on Shape Dynamics [0] tldr: (Shannon) entropy [1]: expe
by pizza 4y ago
Minor lightbulb went off in my head: you might be interested in slide 17 here, from a presentation on Shape Dynamics [0]
tldr:
(Shannon) entropy [1]: expected description length of a state of a system
(Shape) complexity [0]: a 'clumped-ness' metric: clump sizes / inter-clump separations
information: not sure anyone ever really resolved this in a satisfying way :^) [2]
[0] https://philphys.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/Barbour-Saig_Summer_School_2019.pdf https://philphys.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/Barbour-Saig_Su...
[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/606722/how-do-different-definitions-of-entropy-connect-with-each-other?noredirect=1&lq=1 https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/606722/how-do-di...
[2] https://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Shannon_Claude_E_1956_The_Bandwagon.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/2/2f/Shannon_Claude_E_1956_The_B...