Information and free will: (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, July 16, 2012, 15:00 (4492 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Living beings as robots run by information in DNA. Craig Venter reinvents a view of life. 
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> http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/07/passing-the-baton-of-life---from-s... 
> "All living cells that we know of on this planet are 'DNA software'-driven biological machines comprised of hundreds of thousands of protein robots, coded for by the DNA, that carry out precise functions," said Venter. "We are now using computer software to design new DNA software."
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> Far be it from a fence-sitter to present your case for you, David, and perhaps you're just being uncharacteristically coy (or characteristically subtle), but it strikes me that hundreds of thousands of robots carrying out precise - and different - functions suggest a certain degree of intelligence at work. And now we have humans designing new DNA software as if to emphasize the point!-DNA is considered a brilliant information coding system, extremely efficient storage mechanism. A recent study tried a six letter code but four is still best. (Can't find the reference, or I'd post it.

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