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Information Entropy

All articles tagged with #information entropy

science1 year ago

"Physicist's Discovery Suggests We Could Be Living in a Simulation"

A physicist studying mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus claims to have found evidence for a new law of physics, the "second law of Infodynamics", which could indicate we are living in a simulated universe. He suggests that mutations are not entirely random and that information entropy tends to decrease over time. While these claims require further evidence, the study opens up possibilities for genetic therapies, pharmaceuticals, and pandemic research. The physicist proposes experiments to test his theory, including measuring the mass of information and observing the behavior of elementary particles, which could provide insights into the nature of the universe.

science-and-philosophy1 year ago

"Exploring the Boundless Depths of the Human Mind"

The article explores the concept of the mind being larger than the universe by using the analogy of a car using more gas than a gas can can hold. It discusses how the mind's capability can exceed the size of the universe by measuring the information required to generate a specific section of text, using Claude Shannon’s entropy. The authors argue that the entropy requirements to generate a modest piece of text like the Gettysburg Address exceed the storage capacity of the entire history of the multiverse, with implications for AI's ability to match the human mind.