Re: Information as the carrier of efficiency

r norman <NotMyRealEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:34:59 +1000, j.wilkins1@xxxxxxxxx (John
Wilkins) wrote:

r norman <NotMyRealEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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My impression is (and John will immediately correct me if I am wrong)
that one of his main arguments is that ...

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Dang. I had a cagy response all worked out, and you expressed it better
than I could have...

Full disclosure: I did have the slight advantage of reading a copy of
the paper "A deflationary account of information in biology" prior to
its presentation to the Australasian Association of Philosophy in
July. Is that the one that the biologists loved and the philosophers
hated? If so, maybe I should join the other side!

No. That was given to only philosophers. The response was... mixed. The
one that biologists liked was "Microbial species and lateral genetic
transfer".
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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