Information as the source of life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 26, 2015, 15:08 (3074 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Thank you for repeating and emphasizing the point I have made repeatedly and emphatically in my post: that there is a difference between information and the intelligence that uses it. -I've been unclear in my discussions. Your comment is what I have always thought.-> DAVID: You are right. But life had to start with available dynamic useful information, which inorganic material does not have. It has static, descriptive information.-> dhw: As I understand it, your argument relating to the origin of life is not that “dynamic information was needed”, but that intelligence was needed - namely, that of your God, who assembled the meaningless letters (static information) into something meaningful (dynamic), i.e. life. Neither intelligence nor life IS information. Information does not use information in order to maintain information. Intelligence uses information to maintain life. Your very own words. What could be clearer?-This is why you are the editor and I am the writer. Information and intelligence are two separate items.
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> dhw: And design by a mind is design by intelligence, not by information.-But intelligence uses information in the design procedss.