Is Complexity Observer Dependent?

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JS: My concerns are much smaller scale in terms of my everyday life than the great expanse of space and time throughout the universe. JS says, is complexity observer dependent? We say that a coin flip is simple because we allow ourselves to model it probabilistically. To Laplace's demon, every microstate is distinguishable from each other. So they don't need to talk about entropy.

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