Intelligent Design

What is function? What is functional information? Can it be measured? Let’s try to clarify those points a little. Function is often a controversial concept. It is one of those things that everybody apparently understands, but nobody dares to define. So it happens that, as soon as you try to use that concept in some reasoning, your kind interlocutor immediately stops you at the beginning, with the following smart request: “Yes, but what is function? How can you define it? So, I will try to define it. A premise. As we are not debating philosophy, but empirical science, we need to remain adherent to what can be observed. So, in defining function, we must stick to what can be observed: objects and events, in Read More ›