(September 13, 2013 at 11:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You can say this about ALL things, not just genetic information. A wave doesn't really exist-- it's just a bunch of particle wave functions vibrating in space, each functioning individually based on its physical properties (which happen to add up to what we see as a wave). A person doesn't really exist-- it's just a bunch of particle wave functions vibrating in space.I'm not getting the connection between existence and information here.
But as soon as you start talking about people as existent things, then you have to extend that conceptual umbrella to body parts, cells and DNA as well. You can't philosophize the parts out of existence while insisting on the reality of the whole.
I don't think anyone is denying the existence of the human body, its parts, or the cells that make it up.
It's whether or not someone or something intentionally encoded it with "information" to do what it does.