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pandion
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Message 27 of 31 (656913)
03-23-2012 2:51 AM


biological information is simple
As both a biologist and a computer systems analyst, information is simple.
As far as Shannon information is concerned, any change is a loss of information, i.e., the message sent is not the message received.
But biological information is not subject to the rules of communication theory. The definition of biological information that I learned some decades ago is this: the number of bits required to represent a genome. Any change in the number of bits required to represent the genome (a novel mutation, + or -), is a change in information.
The requirement for a new function is a boondoggle. It is another case of an unreasonable creationist demanding the biologists use his definition of information by using a definition that no one but creationists use.

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