On 7 February 2014 14:20, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> >> Go on then, what is it saying? Please give a little more explanation, if you keep on just saying "no" I will have to assume you don't actually have anything of interest to say. -- 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.
