Re: entropy and uncertainty, REDUX

Posted by Nick Thompson on Aug 07, 2010; 8:22pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/entropy-and-uncertainty-REDUX-tp5375070p5384396.html

But you agree that good prediction requires there to be structure or a process that provides the frame work in which a prediction can be made. 

 

Minimally, I think we assume that what we see is a feature of what is there.  Not all careful observational techniques reveal the same aspect. 

 

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Russ Abbott
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 3:45 PM
To: Grant Holland
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] entropy and uncertainty, REDUX

 

That seems to me to be a different point--and one that Glen made about entropy a while ago.  Scientific realists assume that what one sees is what there is, more or less, that structure in any dimension is presumed to be part of the universe, and that as observers we just see what is.  (I know that's oversimplified, but that's the basic idea.)  Predictability is different in that it's a matter of predicting something unknown when the prediction is made.

-- Russ

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