Roger writes: “So mutual information between the whole and the part, the shared purpose as it were, where the residual information of the part -- modulo the mutual information with the whole -- would presumably be the 'function' of the part.”
It sees incomplete. In the case of higher-order functions, one would observe the caller and callee interacting, but from a design perspective, the intent is to keep them separable. Anyway, cool stuff. Soros told me Skynet will need these features, and soon! Marcus
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