[asa] information, complexity, environment -- was ]Biologic Institute

A speculative thought --- ID proponents dating back to Thaxton have
pointed to what they call the "information" in the genetic code itself.
Is it sensible to say that this is "complexity" associated with the
"environment" provided by the way in which proteins fold?
Don

Randy Isaac wrote:
> 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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Received on Tue May 13 21:04:22 2008