Announcing Science’s Third Great Transition The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in the Biological Sciences In 1960, physicist Eugene Wigner wrote what many consider one of the most profound scientific papers of the 20th century: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” He revealed how Mathematics haunts physics in a most uncanny way. Wigner…
Category Archives: Information Theory
Did you know 67% of Americans think ChatGPT might be conscious? University of Waterloo survey. What IS intelligence, anyway? In 2024 it’s THE front-burner question. Dr. Michael Levin at Tufts university is demolishing conventional notions of intelligence. Re-framing AI, genetics, robotics, cancer, longevity. Identity and memory. I’ve interviewed him several times. He’s 20 years ahead…
This video explains, using simple and elegant mathematical proofs, why the universal computational ability proves a computer is not conscious – because all of the meanings and conventions of any computer (IOS vs Android, Java vs. PHP, WAV vs MP3 etc) are assigned by conscious beings:
“Negentropy” or Negative Entropy is a term coined by Erwin Schrodinger in 1943 to describe how life turns disorder into order, which runs in the opposite direction of normal thermodynamics and even “Murphy’s Law.” Only life does this, and to date no one understands what principle or property enables life to do this.
At the Royal Society in Great Britain 31 May 2019, Perry Marshall and investor Kevin Ham announced the $10 Million Evolution 2.0 Prize. The meeting was hosted by Oxford Professor Denis Noble FRS CBE; and Oxford Professor Paul Flather, President of the Forum for Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Denis organized the revolutionary…
Have you ever thought about WHY you have to take the entire bottle of antibiotics every time you get a sinus infection? Because a regular ole’ bug can become a SUPERBUG in about 10 minutes. Unless you napalm the bacteria wreaking havoc on your immune system into oblivion, the tiny little bastards will come back…
Mother Nature has some pretty stunning capabilities. One of them is the ability of two species to combine and make a stronger hybrid. One such merger is the marriage of fungi and algae to make: Lichen. Lichen can make its own food by way of photosynthesis thanks to algae AND protection from the environment through…
Atheist PZ Myers Debates Perry Marshall – Darwinism vs. Perry’s new book “Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design” on “Unbelievable?” with Justin Brierley
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Werner Gitt’s book In The Beginning Was Information is superb and provided the initial inspiration for all I have done with Information Theory. I owe Werner Gitt a debt of gratitude for producing one of the most clear and profound science books I’ve ever read.
The thesis of Gitt’s book is that Claude Shannon’s information theory directly implies design in biology because the existence of language is always preceded by intelligence. Gitt connects this to John 1:1:
As an Electrical Engineer I am utterly appalled at the intellectual slop that passes for science in biology. Engineers would lose their jobs in droves if they tolerated the mushy thinking and lack of rigor that is routine in biology.
Today: 7 Urban Legends Biologists Believe…. but an Engineer Would Know Better:
