If you're going to write a book hundreds of pages long in which you crucially rely on the concept of complexity, you need to explicitly to define it. That's just how it works. If you know what concept of complexity is "the" right one here, you need to spell it out yourself.
Well, Silas, what I actually did was write a book 255 pages long of which this whole Dawkins/complexity thing occupies about five pages (29-34) and where complexity is touched on exactly once more, in a brief passage on pages 7-8. From the discrepancy between your description and reality, I infer that you haven't read the book, which would help to explain why your comments are so bizarrely misdirected.
Oh, and I see that you're still going on about axiomatic descriptions of squirrels, as if that were relevant to something I'd said. (Hint: A simulation is not an axiomatic system. That's 48 bajillion and one.)
Well, Silas, what I actually did was write a book 255 pages long of which this whole Dawkins/complexity thing occupies about five pages (29-34) and where complexity is touched on exactly once more, in a brief passage on pages 7-8. From the discrepancy between your description and reality, I infer that you haven't read the book, which would help to explain why your comments are so bizarrely misdirected.
I have not read the entire book. I have read many long portions of it, mostly the philosophical ones and those dealing with physics. I was drawn to on ...
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
ETA: It would seem that rationality quotes are no longer desired. After several days this thread stands voted into the negatives. Wolud whoever chose to to downvote this below 0 would care to express their disapproval of the regular quotes tradition more explicitly? Or perhaps they may like to browse around for some alternative posts that they could downvote instead of this one? Or, since we're in the business of quotation, they could "come on if they think they're hard enough!"