Re: Can anyone explain this quote?

"Rick Decker" <rdecker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
> > Claudio Grondi wrote:
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> >> Consider such a system. Does it know that it knows the full information
> >> about itself? Not yet? No problem, it can be added to it. Does the
system
> >> now know, that it was added to it the knowledge, that it knows the full
> >> information about itself? Not yet? No problem, it can be added to it
....
> >>
> >> In my eyes there is a huge amount of hints towards believing, that the
> >> quote
> >> is right.
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> >
> > No, it's possible to avoid the infinite regress by using data
> > compression techniques. That's what Goedel did.
> >
> Not to mention that the code for building a brain is far smaller
> than the complexity of the finished product. A biological
> version of data compression, if you will.

The biological version of data compression is probably a delta compression
scheme where the amount of reference data is not well known as also the
impact of the reference data on the finished product. Similar one can argue,
that understanding of the behaviour of one single atom is sufficient to
understand the behaviour of the entire Universe. This kind of reasoning
appears to me as unconvincingly.

Claudio


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