The difference between deterministic and indeterministic systems is whether the state transitions can be fully described by a function that does not know the time. The indeterministic function yields different values each time, so it is not compressible to a time independent one.
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm...I your tweet it looks like ‘function’ equals ‘system.’ Can’t a system have both deterministic and indeterministic functions? I do like the compressibility criteria for functions.
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Replying to @davidgibson
Of course! In my view, a system is a description that isolates a part of the state space of the world into a local one, so we can understand it, which amounts to compressing it with a transition function. If the system was fully indeterministic it would have only random states.
10:39 PM - 15 Nov 2018
from Cambridge, MA
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