Just a minor question: this degree of compressibility will vary
significantly with the algorithm used to compress, no?
And for any particular information, it's possible to make a (custom-made)
compression engine that will reduce it to 1 bit, right? (E.g., to reduce
the Encyc. Brit. to one bit, just have a compression algorithm that looks
for it, and when and only when the EB is found, the compression algorithm
creates a 1 bit file in its stead; else it runs PKZIP on the non-EB
information.)
Does this complicate matters at all, making information content somehow more
"subjective" or something?
--John
> Information is measured by compressibility of the sequence. The alphabet
> even minus the L has more information in it that does the sequence
> isisisisisisisisis. This is highly compressible.
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> glenn
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> Adam, Apes, and Anthropology: Finding the Soul of Fossil Man
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> and
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> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm
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