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What SimplicityTheory can say about it
Jean-Louis Dessalles Telecom Paristech
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mercredi 11 septembre 2013
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What are people interested in ?
What makes a topic interesting (to humans) ?
Unexpectedness
Simplicity Theory
U(s) = Cw(s) – C(s)
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Emotion
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Simplicity Theory Simplicity
Simplicity Theory Theory
Le cerveau suit un principe de simplicité maximale (ex.: reconstitution des parties cachées) (N. Chater 1999)
Generation complexity Cw(s):
parameters to be determined in the world for it to produce s.
A. Kolmogorov
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Cw(s) = 4 bits (4 binary choices)
C(s) = 0 bit (single different target)
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Complexity C(s) of s :
size of the smallest available description of s