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To: WildHorseCrash
That it isn't coded information in the manner that language is coded information; that communication theory is ill-suited as applied to the genetic context.

And why not? A computer program is certainly coded information in a manner similar to DNA.

270 posted on 11/20/2005 9:24:47 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
And why not?

Because there's no communication involved. There's no sender, no receiver, no message, no meaning, no interference. It is analogous, at best, to communication. There in an intentionality inherent to communication that genetics lacks.

271 posted on 11/20/2005 9:37:19 PM PST by WildHorseCrash
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