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> From: Richard Emery <rmemery@earthlink.net>
> Date: June 14, 2006 10:51:31 AM PDT
> To: Hans C. von Baeyer <hcvonb@wm.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Fis] Limited info
>
> Hans, I liked your statement (quoted below). After thinking it
> over, especially with a biological context in mind, I am wondering
> if a nucleotide, such as adenine, would qualify for an inhabitant
> of your six-dimensional phase space. Indeed adenine is exactly one
> bit of information, so far as genetics is concerned. And adenine
> certainly is spatially dimensional. It requires: 10 carbon atoms,
> 5 nitrogen atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms, 7 oxygen atoms, 1 phosphorus
> atom, and 38 electromagnetic bonds, forcing numerous angular
> relationships. Adenine is also "dimensional" in the codonic
> structure of the genetic dictionary, which can be regarded as "pure
> information" (Dawkins).
>
> Frankly, I do not know enough about QM to decide if genetic/genomic
> information truly is QI. A nucleotide looks an awfully lot like a
> quantum bit of information to me. This discussion QM & QI has been
> helpful to me, but most of my questions about their relevance to
> biosystems remain unanswered.
>
> �Richard Emery
>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Hans C. von Baeyer wrote:
>
>>
>> ...
>> Quantum mechanics is an elaboration of the idea that a box with
>> volume h in six-dimensional phase space can SOMEHOW carry one bit
>> of info.
>>
>> Hans Christian von Baeyer
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