ID, Information, and Human Perception

Presumably the human writing in question would be 'Finnegan's wake' as edited by William S. Burroughs.

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For example: time is typical something that human experience, but it's also something inherently existing in the real world even without us

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Don't get me started on that one ....

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DNA does even have semantics, not any sequence is valid, just as human writings.

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I didn't actually mention semantics, since thre is not even a syntax
associated with DNA. What are the rules for a DNA sequence?Well, maybe start and stop codons ... but the DNA in any set of
chromosomes doesn't have any actual syntactic rules that the
whole sequence adheres to (otherwise you wouldn't have premature
stops).Nature doesn't 'percieve' anything ... except if you want to start
netsing analogies to obscure things even more.DNA is a chemical ... it reacts with it's cellular environment,
which reacts with the extra-cellular environment.A hierarchy of chemical systems so complex that to study it we need
a whole discipline of science.That doesn't make it data in any conventional 'data-processing' sense.

Hey Yaro,Kinda like this? One of the most famous zen koans is the demand by the master for the student to "show me your original face before your father and mother were born". This follows from the Buddha's teaching that everything which is born (comes into being) dies (passes out of being) only that which is never born never dies. What is this original unborn? Some called it the original mind, or the one mind. Caught? caught imples a desire to escape. What if he is prior to being? The state is not steady it's changing all the time. What if "he" is doing nothing? What if he is the void, the empty space that this all takes place in? Like the Tibetan metaphor of the sky. When it rains it is not wetted, when the sun shine it's not hot, at night it's not dark. What if you are the empty space that allows the neuro muscular dance of what is called Yaro's life to takes place? What if you are the unborn void that the Yaro character "struts and frets her hour on the stage" in?Waking is what the Buddha told people about. We suffer in our dreams of desire and aversion. The solution to tha suffering, not physical pain, but to the emotional spiritual suffering is to wake from the dream we have of being an entity. But I love poetry! You've a lovely soulful quality. Please continue to let it shine.peace,
lfen

Hey 1.6...matter and energy begetting awareness is one hypothesis.
Some of the sages in the east say that consciousness is the primal source and that matter and energy arise from it, that you and I and this entire Universe is consciousness. Not the contents, that is the play, the transformation, the information. Consciousness as analogous to space, not the nihilistic void but the fertile void.I think it was Lao Tzu that pointed out the most important thing for a bowl is the empty space. Had it no void it would be useless. In the east void or emptiness is not meant as nothing but as the critical no thing ness that gives space for all the happening to move in. It is the most essential primal source of creative. This is a very lovely thought. I forget who wrote the little haiku
"Cutting wood,
drawing water,
miraculous activity!"What is, is miraculous... and "Isness" or "Amness" is the most special of all.peace,
lfen