Layers of Information (musings) (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 18, 2014, 18:57 (3416 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: Here is just a few bullet points that I have running through my head at the moment: 
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• Where does the information needed to interpret the genome come from? (The translation software)
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• Where is the three dimensional location data stored, and how? 
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• Where is the translational data needed to turn electrical signals into chemical signals and/or instructions? (i.e. Converting analog/digital firing of neurons into working instructions for triggered biological events)
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• How is that language established on both ends? Do neurons 'know' how to communicate with cells, is there third party translation layer, or do they speak the same language?
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• We know that cells are aware (in a limited sense) of their environment, but how is that awareness translated into usable information?
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• The human body contains at least 61 elements. Is information about what these elements are and how to use them also encoded in the genome?
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• The human body contains millions of bacteria. How do they communicate with our cells, and how is that communication translated?
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> There is so much information being passed around. Where does it come from?-Fabulous list. I keep bugging dhw about information, and now you have broken it down into the integral processes that must be at work. In biology we know that molecules carry on processes they are engineered to perform through organic reactions mediated by enzymes. There are feedback loops to control the amounts of production, but the passage of sensory information is at another totally different level, with the reactions to that sensory info subject to different mediation. This is all at a very high level of complexity, which of course, strongly suggests it must have been designed. It requires information for the design of the process and the handling of information developed as sensed by the cell or organism.