A pattern does not reduce to anything. Patterns allow
compression, but only where there is more than one
instance of the same pattern. But this terminology is
inherently misleading, because "patterned", ie non-
random, means more than one instance -- a random
stream can itself be considered a single instance of
a pattern, but it's not compressable, is not patterned.
There's a different between symbolic information, ie
that used in human communications, and the naturally-
occurring sort. The way you use "translation", as
applicable to the latter sort, where one stream is the
translation of another, they must share patterns. But
symbolic information streams can share references,
as well. There are no references in naturally-
occurring information.
I'll repeat what I said in my previous message in this
thread: translation does *not* involve compression.
Robin
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