No, it was Permutation City; the idea that any information you like, up to and including the entire universe, is implicitly present in the same amount of randomly scrambled, or otherwise organised, bits of information.
Given that any set of information requires meta-information in order for it to be intelligible, this is trivially true. All you have to do is use a different decoding algorithm.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:25 pm (UTC)The other half suggests that there's some kind of deliberate will being exercised rather than just general flailing about.
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Date: 2005-09-09 02:27 pm (UTC)The Mousetrix
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:00 pm (UTC)If no, then, well, who knows.
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Date: 2005-09-09 03:04 pm (UTC)I think that just about sums it up, yes. Or no.