Re: (Reply to Benzon)

From: Dace (edace@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon 26 May 2003 - 21:38:41 GMT

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    > From: "Wade T. Smith" <wade.t.smith@verizon.net>
    >
    > On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Gudmundur wrote:
    >
    > > But if it weren't for an existing interpretative context (scientists'
    > > minds and other paraphernalia) published genes would not mean anything
    > > to anyone. Similarly, for DNA to convey any information there has to
    > > be the interpretative environment of the cell. So, a more accurate
    > > view of information is to see it as emerging when some system
    > > (scientist, cell, etc.) interprets a series of signifiers/signs (DNA,
    > > letters, etc.).
    >
    > And there it is.

    This is why the term "information storage" is incoherent.

    Ted

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