GRGR(11) - the Master (PPF 1&2)

[David Morris]

>From: RICHARD_WILSON at udlp.com>
> > all this talk of "the master" in PFP is suggestive (to me at least) of 
>the
>Master Equation from statistics which
> > governs the evolution of probability distributions of Markov processes.
>
>that should have been "probability distributions *in* Markov processes". 
>(ouch!
>sorry 'bout that)
>
>also, if you're unfamiliar with the Master Equation, then perhaps you've 
>heard
>of the Fokker-Planck equation (which is closely related and has a similarly
>deviant-sounding name ;-} )....
>

Master Equation?  Master may Eye?

>basically, slothrop is (or at least starts of as) the human embodiment of 
>the
>Poisson Distribution (a classic probability distribution). his evolution 
>over
>time seems to be controlled by some ultimate Master, just as the time 
>dependence
>of the Poisson Distribution is governed by the Master Equation. but Memory
>(memories of what made him what he was in the first place such as the 
>decline of
>his new english ancestors) serves to cloud up the interfaces, makes the
>variables less stochastic, and causes events to deviate from Zipf's 
>principle.
>

I've lost the trail.  "Memory clouds?"  This implies cause.  Memory usually 
roots.  To cloud would be a veilng.  This is a very pessimistic view.  We 
are doomed.  T.S.


>also, i suspect that the (im)morality of a mathematical eqation should be
>identically zero which would make the "creatures" (of the Master Eqn)
>arbitrarily (or 'singularly' perhaps) innocent...
>(how innocent do you want them to be?)....
>
>--rwilson
>

I wish to be fully clothed with the aura of righteousness.

>"i repeat myself when under stress. i repeat myself when under stress.
>  i repeat myself when under stress. i repeat myself when under stress.
>  i repeat..." -- king crimson
>

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