[ExI] Deterministic Randomness (was Probability)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> Go ask Chaitin. He came up with it too.

Correction. He didn't use use a coin flipping mechanism to generate the 
string of bits, he used whether or not a program in the list of all 
possible recursively generated programs would halt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/70008.html
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/

I'll point out once again that Chaitin has that same obsession with 
Leibniz that I have ...

- Bryan
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