Hi Brent, DNA, RNA, whatever. Does information care how it is expressed? Semantics... :-) I seem to be mostly agreeing with Chris' reasoning in his latest post.
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 9/1/2014 10:54 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Paul King < > stephe...@provensecure.com> wrote: > > > Hold it! Where is the information about the physical system required >> to run that 750 Meg of information contained? >> > > DNA contains information on how to make stuff but it doesn't actually do > anything, only proteins and RNA do things. DNA by itself just sits there > and a 1000 line lisp program printed out onto 100 pages of paper would just > sit there, both need hardware to run on. To run the 750 meg DNA program a > cell needs Mitochondrial RNA, Transfer RNA, Messenger RNA, and several > thousand protein enzymes. And to answer your question, every single bit of > information needed to make all those different types of RNA and all those > different types of proteins is contained in that original 750 Meg, it's > equivalent to not only containing the program but also all the information > you need to make the computer to run the program on. And if that reminds > you a little of the chicken or the egg problem welcome to the club, it has > caused origin of like theorists no end of problems. Did DNA, which knows > what to do but can't do it, come first or did proteins, which can do things > but doesn't know what to do, come first? > > > The most popular theory is that RNA came first. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/YJeHJO5dNqQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King Senior Researcher Mobile: (864) 567-3099 stephe...@provensecure.com http://www.provensecure.us/ “This message (including any attachments) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is non-public, proprietary, privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law or may be constituted as attorney work product. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, notify sender immediately and delete this message immediately.” -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
