Information Complication (General)

by David Turell , Friday, November 06, 2015, 01:17 (3093 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The cell/cell community would not survive or evolve if its reading mechanism could not process and use the information it absorbs from the environment.-> DAVID: Different kind of information, informative, but not functional as the information is within the cell.
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> dhw: “Informative information” is a delightful new category in your long and ever changing list. -You are discussing outside the cell stimuli. It is a different kind of information that that which runs the cell. External information is descriptive. Internal information is both descriptive (how a process is working to produce something) and functional (how to run the process).-> dhw: Whether the cell's “brain” is your 3.8-billion-year computer programme or my “intelligence”, it will still have to process information about the rest of the cell, about its colleagues within the organism, and about the environmental conditions it has to deal with. As I see it, that is how it all functions. What other information does your computer programme or my cellular "intelligence" have to process?-I'm still struggling to find the right way to put my concept of what DNA offers. As I see it contains the information that provides for the construction of the organism and for running its functions. I agree that there is a mechanism to read this information and the incoming changing information both from within and without the organism, as described above.