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I still can't believe this Seth Rich shyt is permeating like a virus in the skulls of so many all across the political spectrum. Even if you believe shyt is suspicious, you shouldn't be gullible enough to believe some Fox news guy offering shyt based off I know a guy that knows a guy that told him shyt.
 
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Hogan in the Wolfpac said:
Is there a good summary of this theory online somewhere? Is this "information theory" or is that something else, specifically?
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This is Claude Shannon's 'Information Theory' applied to living systems creating a different paradigm in which evolution can occur.

Best summation I could find is in a book advocating Intelligent Design......

http://robertmarks.org/REPRINTS/BINP/9789814508728_0008.pdf​

A third alternative proposes that information is in fact non-material and that the coded information systems (such as, but not restricted to the coding of DNA in all living systems) is not defined at all by the biochemistry or physics of the molecules used to store the data. Rather than matter and energy defining the information sitting on the polymers of life, this approach posits that the reverse is in fact the case. Information has its definition outside the matter and energy on which it sits, and furthermore constrains it to operate in a highly non-equilibrium thermodynamic environment. This proposal resolves the thermodynamic issues and invokes the correct paradigm for understanding the vital area of thermodynamic/organisational interactions, which despite the efforts from alternative paradigms has not given a satisfactory explanation of the way information in systems operates.
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The 'orthodox' view of the theory applied to biological systems is here.....

The meaning of biological information
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Biological information encoded in genomes is fundamentally different from and effectively orthogonal to Shannon entropy. The biologically relevant concept of information has to do with ‘meaning’, i.e. encoding various biological functions with various degree of evolutionary conservation. Apart from direct experimentation, the meaning, or biological information content, can be extracted and quantified from alignments of homologous nucleotide or amino acid sequences but generally not from a single sequence, using appropriately modified information theoretical formulae. For short, information encoded in genomes is defined vertically but not horizontally. Informally but substantially, biological information density seems to be equivalent to ‘meaning’ of genomic sequences that spans the entire range from sharply defined, universal meaning to effective meaninglessness. Large fractions of genomes, up to 90% in some plants, belong within the domain of fuzzy meaning. The sequences with fuzzy meaning can be recruited for various functions, with the meaning subsequently fixed, and also could perform generic functional roles that do not require sequence conservation. Biological meaning is continuously transferred between the genomes of selfish elements and hosts in the process of their coevolution. Thus, in order to adequately describe genome function and evolution, the concepts of information theory have to be adapted to incorporate the notion of meaning that is central to biology.
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iFightSeagullsForBread said:
:ohhh:Yo

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