Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

On Apr 14, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Iain Strachan wrote:

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> So I would argue that digital IS necessary for the conservation of
> genetic messages.

I would agree with that. The problem is that genetic messages are not
fully conserved. So, this is an unnecessary requirement. Again the
genetic mechanism is sufficient to account for the amount of
conservation that occurs in evolution but it is not necessary. Or put
it another way, conservation in an evolutionary context is not
completely analogous to that in the physics context. In fact, gene
silencing suggests that information conservation in the genome
however defined is not absolute.

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Received on Sat Apr 14 17:04:00 2007