RichardT
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This is all about communication deriving from Shannon's theory of communication. Why don't you explain to us what its exact relevance to "biological information" and evolution is? What is the role of natural selection in Gitt's definitions for example? How has Gitt actually shown the "new information" can't arise? What is the implication of Schneiders work on the Evolution of Biological Information to Gitt's postulates. How does Gitt deal with algorithmic information?
Gitt seems to be extending Shannon but as far as I can see he just made up these postulates. Shannon provided rigorous math in his paper to support his theory. What has Gitt done to support his?
Shannon's measurement of genetic information has no regards to meaning, that is what I know, and this seems to be enough to know that mutation is not evidence for common ancestry. Alleles could come from Genetic Recombination of already existing Alleles and horizontal gene transfers.
I'm going to start giving some practical examples. Even thousands of years ago farmers knew that they could artificially select their crops to make them bigger. But they knew that given enough time, the crops would not become extremely huge, they understood that there were always limits to the size of the crops. They also understood that if they selected too much, the crops would go bad, because whenever they were selected, meaningful information was lost.
When the Horse and Donkey reproduce, the mule is sterile. When Lions and Tigers reproduce, the Liger is sterile (I suspect that this could possibly be the limits of "kind"-- sterility).
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