Joshua Swamidass - Philosophy of Biological Information 

Exceptions matter

You know it. Sad but true.

It would still be one. All is oneness and oneness is all.

How did you find out ?

@@sujok-acupuncture9246 I bet my brother 20 bucks. RIP bro 🙏

Philosophy is about the meaning of words, which is unfortunate for philosophy because everyone knows that every word has a different meaning for every single person on the Earth, living or dead, no matter what language the word is in. There are words I grew up with that no other human being knows outside my hometown of 700 people, in the seventies in rural Ontario, Canada. There are words I memorised reading the dictionary in Philosophy 101, that no human will ever speak again. I know Latin, which no native speaker has spoken for thousands of years! This is not to blow my own horn. It is to stress that language, like time, is a local phenomenon. Language and meaning and the ability to communicate is a localized activity. If I travel to France, they will make fun of my inadequate Quebecois. Thus, since philosophy is directly connected to language, it is only as good as the breadth and depth of a respected Grandpa's mutterings from under his blanket on the Muskoka Chair, alone on the dock at the cottage as he passed away in the sunset with a whisky in his hand, his dog by his side, and his 1938 all-wooden, Chris-craft 100 HP lapping in the chop. So, you are right. Philosophy is meaningless when dealing with large scale cosmology projects, except maybe to boost your vocabulary and your ability to convey your thoughts and describe the physicality of it.

@@Boballoo I wonder if you find my comment philosophically potentially meaningful - here’s a copy for your convenience: All that biological information, from e.g. my gene sequence, to mention the most obvious, makes perfect sense to the considerably large set of atoms that arguably became involved in forming me, THAT’S what I keep saying, we are trying to translate the mother tongue of atoms (and, therefore, subatomic particles and, therefore, the realms beyond, what we rudimentary consider to be ridiculously small) into a human language. The atoms including particles and information including intelligence seem to be either talking to merely themselves in an utterly complicated circular way, or they might even be talking to us about the way things are. What our humble scientists are trying to accomplish is not less than translating the intricate, and fundamentally alien language of the virtually infinite stream of information from the nature, into a human set of ideas. However, atoms are not so full of themselves without a valid reason: they understand that language naturally. And also have the willingness to obey, and spontaneously form molecules, that spontaneously form biomolecules, that can evolve into cells, that can organise themselves into human brains, amongst other sensory organs making also critical steps towards the final goal of forming conscious beings. I wonder if particles (and beyond), after they finally realised that they, almost unintentionally, form conscious beings time to time, have ever considered to officially confirm that humans have no hidden variables whatsoever, nothing the particles wouldn’t otherwise know about.