billswift comments on Information theory and FOOM - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 15 October 2009 04:41:47PM *  0 points [-]

"almost all of the information content of an organism resides in the amino-acid sequence of its domains" is an accurate statement. The uterine environment is involved with the creation of another organism, but it is not part of the information content of the organism, except in the sense that everything that happens to an organism is recorded in damages to that organism.