Art, It is what I mean by an information increase and it would most
certainly fit the description of an informational increase provided by
information theory--the theory which I use to process seismic data and
which is used by EE's all over the world. Numerically if you take H, the
information of a DNA sequence and mutate it in such a way that H is
lowered, and then reverse it, the reversal increases H.
Producing the system
>necessary to convert a reptilian scale into an avian feather involves an
>increase in information of the system.
Define that type of information mathematically? What you are trying to do
is have a theory of specificity which has not yet been developed and in
which the founders of info theory say is impossible.
All the arm-waving in the world
>will not provide a cogent explanation for such an increase in information.
And Art, neither will the use of the word 'information' in a non-technical
sense answer the problem. To claim an increase in information one must be
able to quantify the info he has. You can't do it with that loose
terminology.
Unfortunately, I will be offline for the next week and a half and will be
unable to respond to any reply.
glenn
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