Comments on Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology

[Dan_Eastwood]

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This is of course an exaggeration, and a big one, but the idea is correct, I believe. The probabilistic resources of a systerm are the number of states that can be randomly reached. It is similar to the number of times that i can toss a coin. They can be expressed as bits, just taking the positive log2 of the total number of states.

So, if I have a sequence that has a FI of 500 bits, it means that there is a probability of 1:2^500 to get it in one random attempt. If my system has probabilistic resources of 120 bits (IOWs, 2^120 states can be reached), the probability of reaching the target using the whole probabilistic resources is still 1:2^380.

What’s wrong with that?

Well for starters, I can use the same argument to prove that it’s impossible (…beyond probabilistic resources…) to flip a coin 500 times. There might be just a wee flaw with that methodology.