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The “functional complexity” of a process or object is the minimal kolmogorov complexity of an object or process that can be substituted into the directively organised system and the directively organised system still accomplish its goal.
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A directively organised system is a system such that:
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A system or process has a function if it is part of, or is, a “directively organised system”.
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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What functionalities might you envision to directively enable certain well characterized checks?
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Following Ernst Nagel, “The Structure of Science, 1979; and Alexander Rosenberg, “The structure of biological science, 1985; we can call the outcome of a directively organised system its “Goal”, and say that the system or its components have the function of bringing about their share of the goal.
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Indeed the doctrine’ or fact of the Holy Spirit is only another way of generalizing the truth that God will co-work invigoratively, correctively, and directively in all the good struggles of believing souls; and so will bring in, at all times and junctures, those increments of power that are necessary to success.
Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876
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