Randy wrote
Information is physical. There is no information
without a physical medium.
Information is independent of its physical
embodiment.
Is this a necessary property of information? Or just part of Landauer's definition?
In any case one could say that the protein synthesized by a sequence embodies the information in that sequence, just in a different (transformed) form.
Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
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