Kolmogorov complexity has the counterintuitive property that an ensemble can be simpler than any one of its members. The shortest description of your soul isn’t going to directly specify your soul; rather, it’s going to be a description of our physical universe plus an “address” that points to you.
Quantum nondeterminism is going to make an address not much better than compressing the local content directly, searching for the thing rather than at a location. And to the extent laws of physics follow from the local content anyway (my mind holds memories of observing the world and physics textbooks), additionally specifying them does nothing. So unclear if salience of laws of physics in shortest descriptions is correct.
Kolmogorov complexity has the counterintuitive property that an ensemble can be simpler than any one of its members. The shortest description of your soul isn’t going to directly specify your soul; rather, it’s going to be a description of our physical universe plus an “address” that points to you.
Quantum nondeterminism is going to make an address not much better than compressing the local content directly, searching for the thing rather than at a location. And to the extent laws of physics follow from the local content anyway (my mind holds memories of observing the world and physics textbooks), additionally specifying them does nothing. So unclear if salience of laws of physics in shortest descriptions is correct.
Yes but that’s usually when the ensemble is infinite.