Yes, the physical “text” is molecules of paper and ink which create sensory stimuli sent to the brain, and are there subjected to pattern recognition routines with outputs which work their way up to consciousness.
Pattern recognition?
Then patterns were authored into the text. And the reader recognized these patterns? Doesn't that call for a concept of patterns in the arrangement of the molecules into physical text?
Doesn't that mean that information had two functions. One - information contributed to the arrangement into patterns. And second - information contributed to the recognition of the patterns.
Isn't that the case? If so did this information in the arrangement of the text imposed from outside the molecules of the text or did it come from within them?
But it is there interpreted in context with the authoring process; which is not its cause but its context.
I don't fully understand what you mean here. But does the limits and scope of context come from a concept imposed upon the text from without the molecules of the text or not?
Is context recognized? If so there must have been a concept determining the arrangement of the text which was in turn recognized. Information was imposed upon the text to determine context and information was employed to recognize context.
To predict the “story” in the book from the properties of paper and ink fails for lack of context, as does prediction of the genetic code from its chemical components. The molecules had to flail around for a while before durable formations developed by self-reproduction.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean here about context.
I think I do understand what you say about molecules flailing together causing dirt to give rise to brains over a long period of time. And these brains flailed together randomly from molecules, can dream, imagine, calculate, question, argue, explain, and involve themselves in self discovery and conceptualize abstractions such as numbers.
These living minds and these selves, I think you say, are not the product of information imposed upon material from outside of the material.
It is too much to ask me to consider plausible. The same author writes
"Thus according to the laws of physics it is impossible for matter to have organized itself without the aid of energy and of teleonomic machines!"
Scientists always add "know-how" and energy in their experiments to allegedly make successful atempts to create artificial life. Wilder-Smith says that life requires the input of information: the genetic code.
The formula for life is then "matter plus energy plus ideas = life."
I think you are arguing that "matter plus energy = life". Or perhaps "matter plus energy plus huge amounts of time = life."
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