Re: Information from nothing???

lhaarsma@OPAL.TUFTS.EDU
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 11:22:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Brian D. Harper wrote:

> ===Begin Yockey====================================================
> [Yockey is quoting Lifson, see ref. below--BH]

> _selected from a set_ of possible messages. As Schrodinger had pointed out
> previously, the number of such sequences is transcomputational in magnitude
> and provides more than ample capacity to record the complexity of living
> organisms.

This caught my attention.
What do you mean by "transcomputational"?
Curious.

> -- H.P. Yockey, "Information in bits and bytes", _BioEssays_, vol. 17, no. 1,
> 1995, pp. 85-88. [This is a letter in reply to S. Lifson, "What is Information
> for Molecular Biology", _BioEssays_, vol. 16, no. 5, 1995, pp. 373-375]

Loren Haarsma