Re: The CSI Challenge of snex

Seanpit <seanpitnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Signal C:

31415926535897932384626433832795 . . .

You see, Signal C is both complex and specified relative to a pattern
that is very very unlikely to be produced by any natural source of
radiosignals beyond a certain relatively low threshold number of
character positions (i.e., complexity).

Sean, take a square box of side 1 (foot, meter, whatever) and place a
cardboard ring in it that touches the sides. Now start throwing pingpong
balls from a distance so that their location in the box is more or less
random. The ratio between the balls landing in the circle and outside it
will be pi. The more balls you throw, the more digits.

Ok, that's not a radio signal, but it's a very simple physical process,
no intelligence involved. If I were an experimental physicist I could
probably come up with a radio equivalent of it.

Maybe instead of waving your hands you should do what ID has been
promising for year: actually *prove* that something is specified
complex. For whatever definition of specificity and complexity, as long
as you come up with at least *some* definition.

Victor.

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Victor Eijkhout -- eijkhout at tacc utexas edu

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