Between Order and Chaos: The Quest for Meaningful Information

The notion of meaningful information seems to be associated with the sweet spot between order and chaos. This form of meaningfulness of information, which is primarily what science is interested in, is not captured by both Shannon information and Kolmogorov complexity. In this paper I develop a theo...

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Published in:	Theory of computing systems Vol. 45; no. 4; pp. 650 - 674
Main Author:	Adriaans, Pieter
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer-Verlag 01.11.2009 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Algorithms Complexity theory Computer Science Data compression Datasets Entropy Learning Optimization Science Studies Theory of Computation Thermodynamics Universe Thermodynamics Meaningful information MDL Two-part code optimization Randomness deficiency Algorithmic esthetics Learning as compression Free energy
ISSN:	1432-4350, 1433-0490
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