Re: pure chance
billgr@cco.caltech.edu
Mon, 23 Dec 1996 09:06:02 -0800 (PST)Glenn Morton:
> > 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.
By 'ordered' I meant 'not random.' Sorry for any encroachment on
any previously established etymological turf. :-)
-Greg