On 7 February 2014 02:01, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:36 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So he's saying the number of proteins you COULD make from around 60 amino >> acids exceeds the Lloyd limit - not that there in fact is a Lloyd limit's >> worth of information stored in a given protein, brain, organism or even >> biosphere. >> > > No. Read again >
OK... > It is of interest to determine just how complex a physical system has to > be to encounter the Lloyd limit. For most purposes in physical science the > limit is too weak to make a jot of difference. But in cases where the > parameters of the system are combinatorically explosive, the limit can be > significant. For example, proteins are made of strings of 20 different > sorts of amino acids, and the combinatoric possibility space has more > dimensions than the Lloyd limit of 10^120 when the number of amino acids > is greater than about 60 (Davies, 2004). > That still seems to be saying what I just said. The "dimensions in possibility space" is surely equivalent to the number of different proteins you could make? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
