To understand, what Krakauer means with “regularised randomness” and “frozen accidents”, read
WHAT IS COMPLEXITY?
by Murray Gell-Mann, 1995
#complexity #computation #information
Anybody interested in that stuff here?
@FroehlichMarcel interesting, but bit too complex for me just at this minute 🙂
A good background text on algorithmic information theory can be found here:
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Algorithmic_information_theory
The key idea is that complexity can be best captured by the length of the most concise description of the regularities of a thing.