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Go over keynote-hector-zenil again and take notes.

Science is compression: Random ⇒ Hidden structure.

Complexity is the result of some control / feedback that keep systems stable / give rise to harmonic patterns over time.

Complexits as an emergent property of universal computation. (see CA)
→ unbounded complexity

• functional information: the idea of reposing the notion of information/complexity as “once things become composable, the amount of combinations that can exist explodes, which is much more functional in some sense”
• composition space growing → functionality growing
• blaize: what’s missing from kolmogorov information is the notion of compositionality / scale
• life is an engine for turning random encounters into algorithmic information for how to make stuff / do stuff in the future
• it composes hierarchically, which gives a multi-scale / compositional quality which isn’t captured by the kolmogorov sense of it; basic theory work ahead to get a better handle on the basic information theoretic properties of life

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