Re:A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision
by theoh on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:08AM
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Well, if the effect is just experimental error, I agree that no explanation is needed.
I was using entropy in the information theoretic sense, as you might assign a measure of entropy in bits to each character in a language. If part of an animal is "less surprising" I'd say it contributed less to the entropy of the whole thing. Maybe that's too woolly.
There is no way you could identify the whole machine based on seeing a small part if an identical part recurs in many different machines. It's not holographic in the way animals are.
I was using entropy in the information theoretic sense, as you might assign a measure of entropy in bits to each character in a language. If part of an animal is "less surprising" I'd say it contributed less to the entropy of the whole thing. Maybe that's too woolly.
There is a difference between complex mechanical and organic objects, though. See the universal machine tools illustrated on this page: http://www.lathes.co.uk/adcock%26shipleycombination/
There is no way you could identify the whole machine based on seeing a small part if an identical part recurs in many different machines. It's not holographic in the way animals are.