havoc writes:
Perdition writes:
The thing is, in DNA, there really is no such thing as random keystrokes
Realy so mutation is no longer random? Answer carefully your entire world view hangs in the balance.
You only quoted a small portion of what Perdition said, plus you seem to have forgotten the context. One of your questions was how we would tell the difference between English and gibberish, and the paragraph containing the sentence you misleadingly excerpted explains that in DNA there is no gibberish. Every single 3-nucleotide sequence code (known as a codon) codes for an amino acid . There are no meaningless codons in DNA, no equivalent to gibberish.
Of course there are possible indicators of significance at the gene level. For instance, we recognize non-coding regions by the lack of start and stop codons. How does your specified complexity calculation take start and stop codons into account?
--Percy
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