Cryptographic Nature

by David Krakauer, 2015

„… various forms of regularized randomness, historically encrypt adaptive dynamics.“

arxiv.org/abs/1505.01744v1

To understand, what Krakauer means with “regularised randomness” and “frozen accidents”, read

WHAT IS COMPLEXITY?

by Murray Gell-Mann, 1995

complexity.martinsewell.com/Ge

A good background text on algorithmic information theory can be found here:

scholarpedia.org/article/Algor

The key idea is that complexity can be best captured by the length of the most concise description of the regularities of a thing.

@FroehlichMarcel interesting, but bit too complex for me just at this minute 🙂

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