Guy Hoelzer  wrote:

> > MR:
> > Let me explain my position. Natural selection not only filters out
> > dissonant information but it selects mutations which are favorable to
> > species being able to survive and reproduce.

> GH:
> I think this is actually only one thing that natural selection is doing.
> There is no mechanistic difference I can see between filtering out the bad
> and selecting the good.

JE:-
Dr Hoelzer is attempting to make information
an absolute and not just a relative concept,
within the science of biology. Unless disinformation
can be separated by a test from information the
science of biology cannot operate as a science.
Within biological systems disinformation is
not information it is just more noise. Information
is always contextual within biology. Unless
noise is not information then information is
just a useless biological concept. Within Darwinian
theory (the only testable theory we have)
noise becomes information when it increases
absolute fitness but not when it decreases
it.


Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

PO Box 266
Church Pt
NSW 2105
Australia

edser{at}tpg.com.au
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