Bruce Lipton & the cell (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, December 27, 2015, 14:11 (3253 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I understand how reluctantly you have come to recognize that life runs on information, with a cellular interpretation of the layers of code and modifiers doing their job. I still get the idea that originally you did not understand the presence of, and importance of, that concept. 
dhw: Please believe me when I say I am not quite that stupid. My objection was to the constant and highly confusing misuse of this word, blurring the distinction between information and the mechanism that processes it, with statements like “information runs life” or “information as the source of life”. We have reached agreement on this. -DAVID: I apologize. I see you had semantic problems, as the editor you are.-Gracious apology happily accepted. The semantic problems were not mine, however. If the writer says something he does not mean, e.g. he says “information runs life” when he means “life runs on information”, then he is the one with problems!-dhw: As I understand it, the read/write mechanism records and retrieves information. Shapiro believes cells and organisms have the ability to process that information and make decisions based on their findings. 
DAVID: I know. He is discussing epigenetic changes which may cause advances in evolution.-And since these changes are the result of interaction between the environment and the cellular community, and since he believes cells and organisms are intelligent, cognitive, sentient, decision-making beings, it's mighty difficult to see how this means evolution is all a matter of cells and organisms automatically obeying God's implanted instructions.