303 | AMA | February 2025

5700.541 - 5722.514 Sean Carroll

I recently learned about the notion of Kolmogorov complexity, and it seems like a pretty good measure of how complicated a system is. In plain English, both seem to roughly mean how much information is required to write down the full rules of the system. Is that a reasonable connection to make? You know, I'm in favor in these kinds of questions of not saying that there's a right answer.