David Campbell wrote:
"There are some people on the list with strong backgounds in
cybernetics. As for me, I note that this reflects an incorrect
concept of information as it applies to biological evolution. The
information for biological evolution is the environment. Organisms
succeed if their genetic information adequately matches this existing
information. Mutation, recombination, etc. continually provides new
genetic information to test against the environmental information.
There's no mystery about where information could come from."
Agreed. And as I think I've noted before, the more appropriate technical
term that information theorists use in describing DNA in a cell is
"complexity" rather than "information."
Randy
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