Shannon information – Uncommon Descent

Informatics Information Intelligent Design specified complexity

At Mind Matters News: Does Mt Rushmore contain no more information than Mt Fuji?

As Jeffrey Shallit claims? That is, does intelligent intervention increase information? Is that intervention detectable by science methods?

Origenes Spinoza // follow-up #38 Again, S embraces strict determinism and argues enthusiastically against free will, so he will not be... – Skeptic argues free will is real
Origenes According to Spinoza, we are fully determined: … every finite thing can neither exist nor be determined to produce an... – Skeptic argues free will is real
relatd Alan Fox, So, you claim proteins fold on their own, and automatically "know" how to assume the correct three-dimensional shape?... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
relatd CD at 36, Everyone has a tendency to sin, but looking at it from the purely rationalist perspective ignores the... – Skeptic argues free will is real
relatd JVL at 15, You have an intricate machine and that machine contains sensors. Take DNA repair. The sensors detect a... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
JVL Querius: ID is simply pragmatic Then can ID explain how sections of DNA are transcribed into proteins? IF the genetic... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Querius Martin_r @202, This is typical Darwinian. They call things machines, but they don’t mean machines. They call things engineering, but... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
JVL Jerry: You haven’t a clue what you are talking about. Well can you explain how the genetic 'code' works? That... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
chuckdarwin PM1/34 "Though arguably the problem is not just 'free will vs determinism' but the very idea of 'free will' as... – Skeptic argues free will is real
Querius On the contrary, ID is simply pragmatic while ". . . simply won’t let go. Like a dog with a... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
jerry In layman vernacular, “code” and “selection” are intentional acts by individuals with some level of intelligence. This is not how... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Querius What Otangelo writes about the fulfillment of the seventy weeks prophecy has indeed been computed in days. A different method,... – Otangelo Grasso’s new book, Confirming Yeshua
Ford Prefect JVL@8, I would agree that IDists latch on to terms used by biologists, terms such as “code” and “selection” in... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
jerry What you are missing is any evidence from other than the Earth as we know it. I read the article.... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
JVL Relatd: Out to muddy the waters? Code means instructions. If the 'code' has nothing to do with the physical reactions... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
jerry You seem to get peeved easily I must be over the target with logic. exercise your free will and change... – Skeptic argues free will is real
PyrrhoManiac1 @21 Western monotheism, by positing a perfect God, one with absolute power, foreknowledge, and moral goodness, has created an insurmountable... – Skeptic argues free will is real
Alan Fox From the paper Relatd links to: Most proteins fold into specific three-dimensional conformations to carry out their unique biological roles... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
critical rationalist @KF, An accurate self replicator requires a blueprint, as opposed to replicating the organism itself, which is the replicator vehicle.... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
Alan Fox Meaning what? In order to fold correctly, proteins require chaperones.Nope. Proteins generally will fold into a specific confirmation spontaneously. Chaperones... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
OldArmy94 AI is nothing more than a Trojan horse for increasing and maintaining control over subjects under the guise of neutrality... – Joseph Miller: ChatGPT Still Can’t Process...