Posted by
lrudolph on
Aug 07, 2010; 7:40pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/entropy-and-uncertainty-REDUX-tp5375070p5384293.html
On 7 Aug 2010 at 15:14, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Predictibility requires a person to be predicting; organization is there
> even if there is no one there to predict one part from another.
That's hardly obvious, and I don't think it's true.
I happy to concede the statement about "predictability"
without further proof (because it agrees with my bias);
but I can't see any principled way to accept it, and
not deny the statement about "organization"--my bias
is to say that organization, too, requires "a person"
to be assessing the system as organized or not (and,
if organized, maybe "how much"). Convince me that
the assymmetry you purport is justifiable.
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