Re: Biological Information

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> Dear FIS Colleagues
SHORT COMMENTS FROM WEB
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> The Kindergarden Questions
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> [these are the questions we ask when young, no-one can answer
> us at that stage and then when we grow up we find that still,
> no-one can answer us !!!]
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> * What is information ?
see Wiener INFORMATION IS INFORMATION
> * Is information no less than an artefact of observation ?
CERTAINLY NOT
> * What is biological information ?
THIS IS THE TRUE INFORMATION, NO INFORMATION COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT FROM
LIFE IS KNOWN, OR IS THERE ANYBODY AMONG THE FIS-PEOPLE WHO KNOWS IT BETTER??
> * Is it different to information physicists discuss ?
NO ITS JUST ANOTHER LANGUAGE.

WERNER EBELING

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> BioInformation - an Historical Anachronism ?
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> The rise in the notion of information in biological
> systems could be related to the contemporary scientific
> culture of mid 40s - mid 50s - - information theory,
> formal languages, computational science etc. Maybe the
> metaphorc notion of text and language, which gave rise
> to notions of codes, messages, transcription and translation
> is due for replacement. The notions associated with
> genome as program are far too simplistic. At the end of the day,
> will this approach simply facilitate syntax and no semantics ?
> Is gaining semantic understand nothing but a philosophical
> dream?
TO ME THIS IS THE ESSENCE NOT JUST A DREAM !!!
I LIKE THE VIEWS OF MICHAEL CONRADS ON MATTERS OF
BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

> Information - - Matter, Energy and Measurement
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> The Internalist stance. How can we develop the intellectual tools
> needed to reason from this point of view ?
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I DO NOT SEE HERE THE REAL SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM

REGARDS FROM MADRID, WHERE I STAY AT THE MOMENT
ITS SPRING TIME HERE

Werner Ebeling
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Received on Fri Feb 20 11:24:43 1998