From what I read it looks like the author is saying that information can change between a subset and a larger set leading to it processing inputs more or less efficiently.
If I understood the logic gate portion correctly it seems as simple as saying 1+1+1+1+1 isn’t quite the same as saying 5 because to do 5+1 you just do two steps and to do 1+1+1+1+1+1 you do a bunch of steps lol, but I am probably missing something.
Ed: also that when you add variability to it, for some things the smaller scale is not as consistent as the larger scale or vice versa, and the idea is that there’s different optimal scales to look at different things to get the most useful information.
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I’d also like a dumbed down version.
From what I read it looks like the author is saying that information can change between a subset and a larger set leading to it processing inputs more or less efficiently.
If I understood the logic gate portion correctly it seems as simple as saying 1+1+1+1+1 isn’t quite the same as saying 5 because to do 5+1 you just do two steps and to do 1+1+1+1+1+1 you do a bunch of steps lol, but I am probably missing something.
Ed: also that when you add variability to it, for some things the smaller scale is not as consistent as the larger scale or vice versa, and the idea is that there’s different optimal scales to look at different things to get the most useful information.