[Southack]

"DOS and Windows XP are both binary (unlike genetics). Anyone who knows anything about software can easily see a pathway, in fact, multiple pathways between the two."

DOS and Windows XP can both be considered as messages.

Anyone familiar with cryptography can tell you that to extract one message from another requires a Key and an Algorithm (which could be as simple as a bitflip, but more than likely would be much more complex).

The math in this thread effectively covers the mathematical probability/improbability of such a Key self-forming on its own at random (i.e. without intelligent intervention).

Essentially (though the actual number can vary slightly based upon definitions/pre-conditions used), the Key would have to be less than 96 bytes long for even a remote chance at forming "naturally."

Can you show a 96 byte Key that can extract the Windows XP "message" from DOS?

Not on your life.

[Nebullis]

DOS and Windows XP can both be considered as messages.

Except that in evolution, noise can be information. Some of the information is contained in the structure and attributes of molecules themselves. (In some ways, life is a property of matter.)

Again, using an imprecise model for life and then imposing the limitations of that model on life is not valid.

[Southack]

Now that we've filtered through some of the initial flotsam, I believe that it's time that you address Post #557.

[Southack]

Now that we've filtered through some of the initial flotsam, distractions, red herrings, straw men, and sophomoric logical errors, I believe that it's time that you truthfully address Post #557.

[Southack]

Now that we've filtered through some of the initial flotsam, distractions, red herrings, straw men, and sophomoric logical errors, I believe that it's time that you truthfully address Post #557.

[Askel5]

The math in this thread effectively covers the mathematical probability/improbability of such a Key self-forming on its own at random (i.e. without intelligent intervention).

Hey ... "intelligent intervention" ... that must be you!