# Comments on Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology

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**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/comments-on-gpuccio-functional-information-methodology/7560 "2019-08-26T15:59:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Eastwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/dan_eastwood/32/2368_2.png) [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/comments-on-gpuccio-functional-information-methodology/7560/106 "2019-08-27T19:23:32Z")

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> [@Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/gpuccio-functional-information-methodology/7549/80):
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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