Terrence Deacon - Philosophy of Biological Information 

I wanted to make a comment here because I think it is relevant and important to biological systems. That is the huge amount of redundancy in preserving entire DNA strands in the chromosomes of ordinary somatic cells and also the gametes. This is all inside every cell and there are many cells. This is presumably done because preserving biological information is so critical and there are systems in place in the organism to take copies of all the information by duplicating the cell including this information in the chromosomes (mitosis and meiosis). All of this I find fascinating.

This is freaking me out 3:33 into it! I think it's knowing what he is going to say and knowing what it means about the truth of our reality as being a story derived from our communication with our self, the one self appearing as many and all the non self stuff is the self also some kind of way. I'm sure this is why Einstein found entanglement spooky!

There is something very interesting about the distinction between biological information and all other kinds of information, and that's of course the signal of life, it's aboutness being, well, who knows, but maybe cl oser to truth! Thanks for all the great work these years I hope you and yours are well, take care

But dna sequence and structure are literally causally linked ie when there’s a mutation in the DNA sequence, the structure can be catastrophically affected, thymine dimers. So structure and sequence are recognizably similar. They are in fact, unable to produce one without the other. It’s unwise to say that DNA shape has nothing to do with information.

This is so important and fascinating. I love this content. I would like to know a little more about it. I must read more about protein synthesis occurs from mRNA templates and that from DNA. Fortunately, knowledge is available to learn from.

(3:00) *TD: **_"And that tells us that information the concept of information is actually a hierarchic concept."_* ... I would add to Deacon's third level of biological information with *value judgments.* Although he did reference good and bad information (which is a type of value assessment), all of the multilevel interactions Deacon spoke of are subservient to value judgments. Discerning _good information_ from _bad information_ can be as simple as issuing a binary response, but establishing a "spectrum of value" for both good and bad information takes it all step further. Within a "dynamic spectrum of _Good Information"_ all information held within this spectrum organized from top to bottom based on overall "value." *Example:* Food, safety, and the ability to utilize resources would be located near the top of the spectrum with playfulness, curiosity, and social interaction located somewhere below the former. There would also need to be an *internal mechanism* that is able to issue these types of judgments.

3:27 formation of complex functional structures, capable of forming, storing, and conveying certain forms of information, seem to require a higher degree of complexity than the constituent parts alone... unless, the part/s have such innate quality, to begin with 🤔

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Is the ‘aboutness’ he is referring to another word for purpose? But how does purpose emerge out of a lack of purpose without involvement of any preceding form of intelligence, design or intent?

Most don't really care about how the universe and cosmos actually work - truth seekers do - they're more concerned in finding a way to fit their conditioned understanding and modulation of it into the cosmos itself, or rather shoehorning the principles and universals into their boot as a truth so reifying themselves - and if it doesn't fit they discard it; this implies a denial, as it is well known man's carnal mind or ego seeks to self preserve itself. There's parables of such in Cain vs. Abel in the bible, and the countless cardinal Hindu texts. People aren't just skeptical in finding their way in the darkness, between what is true and that which is untrue, but in how a new and possibly a universal truth is affecting their paradigm, of which they cleave to and seek to reify and protect - for what is familiar becomes what is normal, thus is conventional, and that which is conventional becomes what is true and what right, thus we have tradition.

Important to know about information It is NOT go first. But experiences is inportant proceendings . So information is consequencies. He shows rubbish rethoric. Iol.

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There are many things that I don't understand. It follows immediately that Jesus died for me.

Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, opinion and then information. Wisdom - true concentration and union with the Divine at rest; no agitation, no modulation. Therefore, no confusion, delusion, or duality. Understanding - of the Intellectual realm, a realizing by non thinking i.e. intution, the noetic, the principle of all congnitive methodologies. Knowledge - not merely apprehending sense perception objects but seeing into the very Forms, essence, nature(s), relations, and degrees of such knowledge objects, in capacity of going forth upstream to their causes and principles. Opinion - arbitrary. Information - that which is most certainly and without doubt not fundamental but last, least and most dross. Bits and pieces of relative existential information in phenomena, of division, contrast, convolution, duality, agitation, vexing. Ultimately, it is ignorance, agnosis, or avidya, as it is what's 'downstream' as opposed to what's 'upstream', i.e. implying the Source, that which is Wisdom, at rest, no agitation, pure potential, immutable, compared to what's low and dross, that which is transient, ephemeral, subject to change, thus vexed and suffers, that which is acted upon, and participate. Only he of a poor fund of knowledge claims information is fundamental. In truth, it is the exact antithesis to Wisdom and what is the Primordial Cause of all causes.