This paper proposes and examines an answer to the special composition question—complex objects compress information about their parts. I start by defending fastenation for material objects and then extract from fastenation the idea that the conjoinment of parts establishes correlations among the locations and motions of those parts. I move from this to the proposal that entities are parts of some object when that object allows for the efficient, if lossy, compression of information about those parts.

中文翻译：

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受限合成是信息压缩

本文提出并检验了特殊组合问题的答案——复杂对象压缩了有关其部分的信息。我首先为物质对象的固定辩护，然后从固定中提取出这样的想法，即部件的结合在这些部件的位置和运动之间建立了相关性。我从这个建议转向实体是某个对象的一部分，当该对象允许对有关这些部分的信息进行有效（如果有损）压缩时。