RE: How did our cells get their "information"?
March 25, 2018 at 2:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2018 at 2:05 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 19, 2018 at 9:42 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Remember that there is no law of 'conservation of information', so technically, information doesn't have to 'come from' anywhere. if that isn't satisfying, think about how *every* causal interaction actually produces information by allowing 'backtracking' to original conditions.
Indeed, nothing is created out of nowhere, and no information is "produced" or "added" out of nowhere.
All change basically involves recycling.
(March 19, 2018 at 10:24 pm)snowtracks Wrote: DNA information comes from the designer.
What designer? Where?
(March 20, 2018 at 4:01 am)Mathilda Wrote: Indeed. The neutral gene theory holds that duplicated genes which are not detrimental to the fitness of the agent are retained because there is no pressure to get rid of them.
It's why I think that ultimately it's not 'surivival of the fittest' it's survival of the survivors. Or IOW literally any organism that can survive for whatever reasons survives, even if it maintains many unfit elements or gets lucky. It's merely that fitter survivors tend to be better on the whole at surviving. But even the very fittest survivors don't have to be perfectly fit, and there's no reason for them to not maintain unfit elements, if they're still able to outsurvive the competition that is less fit than they are. In fact, it's possible to imagine scenarios where the organism is *too* fit. Imagine a predator so efficient at killing and eating all its prey that all its food sources become extinct so it becomes extinct itself. Such a predator would become extinct after its food sources did, but a predator that was slightly less efficient and didn't make all its food sources extinct, would stick around.
