On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:44 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > NO WAY
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