Please explain how data gets stored inside chemicals, and how said chemicals affect the data, per your point above.
Uh.... that's YOUR job? You and Watson are the ones making the argument that your odd-ball version of information theory somehow correctly models the behavior of complex chemical interactions, and therefore predcts the probabilities of the formation of certain compounds (which, according to you, contain something called "Data"). To make this argument, you also need to make and support the claim that Data in fact IS stored in chemicals.
After all, if the chemicals at issue (self-replicating peptide strings, the precursors to RNA and thus DNA) do NOT contain Data, then your monkey-model is irrelevant.
1. How data gets stored inside chemicals is too obvious.
2. Chemical A likes chemical B more than C. Hence, reactions between them will not be purely random. That's how they affect the data.
3. Also, intermediate results are reused (feedback). Not so in the case of poor monkeys.
Regards.
P.S. You still think feedback implies intelligence?