I’m not sure, I’m gonnah ave otl ook into this more later tonight- but the argtument of kolomonov and folskl iek Shallit seem to be that there is in ‘icnrease in information’ when a cell splits-
To simplify, Wells said “duplicating a gene doesn’t increase information content any more than photocopying a paper increases its information content.”
Shallit seems to say that htere is an increase in information because now you have two sheets of paper (even though they have the very same ifnromation content) because it takes more commands to describe the photocopied information (Not sure how he coems up with htis idea)
the following appears to be key to discounting kolmonov compelxity and oen I’ll hjave to think more abotu tonight
“A useful measure of biological information must account for the function of the information, and Kolmogorov information does not necessarily take function into account”
here’s the link http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/10/jonathan_wells_hits_an_evoluti026791.html
Forgot to includei t in last post for the quote I posted
have to look at it tonight...”
ok
the paper illustration is a good one, you can increase info, but really it is only duplicating, not creating new......