Compressibility and the Reality of Patterns

Philosophy of Science 88 (1):22-43 (2021)
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Daniel Dennett distinguishes real patterns from bogus patterns by appeal to compressibility. As information theorists have shown, data are compressible if and only if those data exhibit a pattern....

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