Information as the source of life (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, November 27, 2015, 12:43 (3073 days ago) @ David Turell

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. -DAVID: I've been unclear in my discussions. Your comment is what I have always thought.-Thank you again. It's not just you. The article you posted in the hope of clarifying the concept indulged in the same obfuscations, and I am reassured by your agreement. “Information” has become the buzzword of the moment, and in my view it is used so indiscriminately that the result is confusion masquerading as some sort of science.-DAVID: This is why you are the editor and I am the writer. Information and intelligence are two separate items.-I am also a writer, and you have done a good job “editing” my reference to extinction on the EVOLUTION AND PURPOSE thread. We're all here to help one another solve the magical mysteries of life!-dhw: And design by a mind is design by intelligence, not by information.-DAVID: But intelligence uses information in the design process.-Yes indeed, no matter who or what does the designing.