Information Complication (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 03, 2015, 12:33 (3306 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:And I do not reject the word information; I reject your obfuscating use of it, as in “information runs life”.-I'll form it slightly differently: living matter uses information to run its processes. it cannot exist in a living form without that information.
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> dhw: I do not like this conflation of the mechanism that does the processing and the information that is processed.-Sorry you don't like it, but the information at the foundation of the living process and the mechanism for reading that information are all contained in each cell.
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> dhw: Life functions by means of a mechanism that processes and uses information. All the confusion is caused by your attempts to describe the mechanism as “information”.-I've admitted that my short-cut English confused you. Information and the mechanism to read the information and use it are two separate but inseparable parts of living matter. Which brings me to the other consideration: what gave first life the initial information to use?