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The Information Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)
An anonymous reader writes with this story about Michigan State University Professor Cristop Adami and his quest to answer how life arose with mathematics. From the Quanta story: "Christoph Adami does not know how life got started, but he knows a lot of other things. His main expertise is in information theory, a branch of applied mathematics developed in the 1940s for understanding information transmissions over a wire. Since then, the field has found wide application, and few researchers have done more in that regard than Adami, who is a professor of physics and astronomy and also microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University. He takes the analytical perspective provided by information theory and transplants it into a great range of disciplines, including microbiology, genetics, physics, astronomy and neuroscience. Lately, he's been using it to pry open a statistical window onto the circumstances that might have existed at the moment life first clicked into place.
To do this, he begins with a mental leap: Life, he argues, should not be thought of as a chemical event. Instead, it should be thought of as information. The shift in perspective provides a tidy way in which to begin tackling a messy question. In the following interview, Adami defines information as 'the ability to make predictions with a likelihood better than chance,' and he says we should think of the human genome — or the genome of any organism — as a repository of information about the world gathered in small bits over time through the process of evolution. The repository includes information on everything we could possibly need to know, such as how to convert sugar into energy, how to evade a predator on the savannah, and, most critically for evolution, how to reproduce or self-replicate."
To do this, he begins with a mental leap: Life, he argues, should not be thought of as a chemical event. Instead, it should be thought of as information. The shift in perspective provides a tidy way in which to begin tackling a messy question. In the following interview, Adami defines information as 'the ability to make predictions with a likelihood better than chance,' and he says we should think of the human genome — or the genome of any organism — as a repository of information about the world gathered in small bits over time through the process of evolution. The repository includes information on everything we could possibly need to know, such as how to convert sugar into energy, how to evade a predator on the savannah, and, most critically for evolution, how to reproduce or self-replicate."
Of course he doesn't because he is an atheist. God created life and it will take a long time for this liberal dumbass to figure that out and start using real science.
John 1 1 from the King James Bible says that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” So if the word was god, then it stands to reason that god was --and is-- the word--god is the word of god, which is contained in the bible...the bible contains the word of god, and so therefore the bible contains god, and so as long as the bible is in existence, or as long as a human brain contains the word of god, God lives. Word is writing, and as writing, then god is information, because writing is information. And so God dies when the information that is him is destroyed beyond retrieval...so maintain the word of god inside you. Guard the word inside you. Store it in your brain with the rest of your memories. Your memories of the word of god inside you is god inside of you. Keep the word of god inside you always, and it will give you eternal life as long as it exists inside you. God lives through you. God sees through you. As long as god lives in you, meaning the word is stored inside your brain, then the memories and other information that make you YOU are also there as well. And so you will live by preservation of YOUR information, just as god lives through preservation of HIS information. God made man in HIS image. God is information. Therefore WE are also information. Preserve your information in your brain for all time. The only way to preserve your soul and the word of god inside you is cryonics. See more at the better resurrection church blog... https://betterresurrectionchur...
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