Seconded. Jerry is right. Miller is the text Sung needs. Steven
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jerry LR Chandler <[email protected]> wrote: > Sung: > > On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:42 PM, Sungchul Ji wrote: > > If you have seen any bio textbook where in the Shannon equation is used > and information is defined, I would love to have the reference. > > > During the late 1970's and during the 1980's, numerous books and articles > asserted relations between biological structures and information theory. > > A comprehensive survey and synthesis by James G. Miller, "Living Systems", > became a "Bible" for many systems theory practitioners, such as computer > programmers and other system's designers. It is clear from your postings > that you would substantially benefit from a careful study of the > MATHEMATICS of this book. > > A second book, published in the late 1970's (as I recall), attempted to > calculate the rate of information flow during transcription and > translation. These equations appear to directly contradict many of your > theses. At the moment, I can not recall either the author or the title but > it should be easy to find via Google. > > Finally, in follow-up to Ben's concise view of your habits, I would > suppose that you will reply to this message with a politically correct > thank-you note. > > Your habits are clear. > > Cheers > > jerry > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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