Specified complexity

Dembski, W. (2001). No Free Lunch Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence. Fanham, MD Rowman and Littlefield. 

Table A-11 Formation reactions for hypothetical Zr-C03 complexes and corresponding acidity production, assuming that all of the Zr is bound to the specified complex.

Oxosulfido-Mo(vi) complexes bearing a range of dibasic, tridentate ONS-donor ligands obtained from the condensation of thiocarbodihydra-zide/dithiocarbazate and substituted salicylaldehydes/2-hydroxyacetophe-none (L-SNO, 31) have also been reported (Scheme 7.3, solv = MeCN unless specified). Complexes of the type MoOS(L-ONS) (32) were obtained by oxo-removal/sulfido-addition reactions at Mo02(L-ONS)(HOMe) (33) using a combination of PPha and SPPha in a 1 10 mole ratio. The Vm =o [ca. 

During the Stone Age, the material research was limited to the mechanical treatment of natural products. When Dalton discovered atomicity and Mendeleev revealed the periodic table, the research trends drastically changed in the intervening period and research was focussed on fundamental principles of basic molecular structure and simple chemical reactions. During the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, an exciting revolution in chemistry has taken place, with multidisciplinary approaches in nanoscience and nanotechnology to the creation of molecules with pre-specified complex structures to perform novel functions, hi the present century, research is focussed on control of crystal structures, nanostractures and microstructures with distinct mechanical, electrical, optical and magnetic properties [1-5]. 

Optical Model theoretical model used for computing the model matrix, viz, optically homogeneous sphere with specified complex refractive index. 

A novel feature of the representation is the first-order predicate calculus that is used to specify complex timing constraints between events. The calculus has all the usual primitives and two new ones based on chronological and causal relationships. Timing constraints consist of three parts quantifiers that specify the events involved in the constraint, a context in which the constraint applies to these events, and requirements on the relative time of occurrence of each event. The context uses the two new primitives. For example, the chronological relationship is used to express constraints between an event and the clock event that immediately follows. The causal relationship is used to specify that a particular constraint holds only if the events were part of one sequence of events and not another, as for example, to specify a hold time requirement during a write operation and not during a read. 

Similarly, what a thing is—or, to employ William Dembski s term, its specified complexity —is also mathematically ambiguous, and Intelligent Design actu-... 

For a fair summary, including definitions, mathematical treatment, criticisms, and references, see Specified Complexity (2013). 

Dembski, W. A. (2007). No free lunch Why specified complexity cannot be purchased without intelligence. Lantham, MD Rowman Littleheld Publishers. 

Specihed Complexity (2013). In Wikipedia. Available from http //en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Specified-Complexity... 

The following formula for algorithmic specified complexity (ASC) combines the measurement of specification and complexity. 

Since high compressibility corresponds to specification, the compressed length of the string is subtracted. Thus, high improbability counts for specified complexity, but incompressible strings count against it. 

This random sequence has a high bound of algorithmic specified complexity. It is important to remember that the ASC bound only serves to measure the plausibifity of the random model. It does not exclude the existence of another more accurate model that explains the data. In this case, using the actual probabihty model used to generate the message yields... 

In other card games, a card is turned over after hands have been dealt to determine trump. The suit of the card is taken to trump for that round of the game. If the same suit is repeatedly chosen as trump, someone may ask what the odds are for that to occur. This question can be difficult to answer because every possible sequence of trump suits is equally likely. Yet, it is deemed unusual that the same suit is a trump repeatedly. Algorithmic specified complexity allows this to be modeled. 

Kirk Durston et al. have defined the idea of functional sequence complexity (Durston, Chiu, Abel, Trevors, 2007). Functional sequence complexity is related to a special case of algorithmic specified complexity. 

But are compressible objects amenable to explanation by simple processes Do all compressible objects lack complexity If this were true, it would be problematic for algorithmic specified complexity because all specified objects would also not be complex, and no object would ever be both specified and complex. But many compressible objects do not appear amenable to explanation by a simple process. 

Dembski, W. A. (2002). No free lunch Why specified complexity cannot be purchased without intelligence. Lanham MD Rowman Littlefield. Available from http / / www.worldcat.org/title/no-free-lunch-why-specified-complexity-cannot-be-purchased-without-intelhgence/oclc/46858256 referer=brief results... 

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