# Regularity, compression, and explanation

ID: compression-and-explanation
Canonical: https://rezonansapp.com/nodes/compression-and-explanation
Version: 1
SHA256: 95d87ba271bbfee001d10bccdcb37f0d45051adaecbde4ee14df7072e795bd09
Epistemic kind: reconstruction

## Question

How are regularity, compression, and the possibility of explanation related?

## Formulation

Ask whether lawful regularity makes a world compressible and thereby intelligible, while keeping distinct the description of a world, the world itself, and entropy.

## Tension

Information length, physical entropy, and meaningful explanation require different definitions.

## Challenge

What is the object being compressed, and what prediction must survive the compression?