[FRIAM] The entropy of thought
steve smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Thu May 29 11:13:03 EDT 2025
> < The interesting question is where exactly does the deterministic
> system turn into something nondeterministic, and how?>
>
> It doesn’t. A deterministic system is a deterministic system.
>
who might have first made the distinction : "deterministic but not
pre-stateable"?
George offered:
Year Thinker Conceptual Expression
1931 Kurt Gödel Incompleteness: truths not derivable
1936 Alan Turing Halting problem: uncomputable predictions
1970s Heinz von Foerster Second-order cybernetics: unknowability of
future
1991 Robert Rosen Closure to efficient causation; entailment limits
1993 Stuart Kauffman Adjacent possible; unprestatable evolution
2005 Gregory Chaitin Incompressible but defined numbers (e.g., Ω)
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