Re: pure chance
Glenn Morton (grmorton@gnn.com)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 19:08:39> Do critters try to maximize the information in
>their genome? Doesn't seem obvious--genomes are ordered, and a
>good thing, too!
>
Genomes may not be ordered. In information theory highly ordered sequences
have little information. Ordered is "0000000000" But there is little info in
that. I can compress it to the string "10-0". The genome is probably
complex. This is different. Complex sequences are highly incompressible. The
sequence
0110101111
cannot be represented by such a short string as the ordered one.
glenn
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