wildchild comments on Natural Selection's Speed Limit and Complexity Bound - Less Wrong
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The discussion Iâm reading is interesting from a computational perspective. From the biology perspective there is a basic problem in the premise and this could be due to unexamined bias.
The âreductionistâ model for biology is no longer considered workable. Here is a website that includes a discussion of this with good links to other articles.
http://www.psrast.org/strohmnewgen.htm
The âreductionistâ model is no longer considered valuable in medicine either. Check this link:
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0030208
In other words, making any conclusion about life or evolution or the nature of man based on how many bits of information is held in a strand of DNA does not square with current thought.
For example, the speed limit of mutation does not fit well with the observed âadaptive mutationsâ where in a life form will increase the number of mutations in response to a stress so as to survive. (The increased mutations does not lead to death- but survival)