Re: Information per organism

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From: Michael Weiss
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:00

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John Baez writes:

    I was only interested in building a person, not a
    *particular* person

Now, if you could just define that a little more precisely...

You have an equivalence relation lurking in the background.  You want
to know how much information is needed, and not supplied by the DNA,
after modding out by this equivalence relation.

(Why does this remind me of the old Woody Allen joke, "I have an
intense desire to return to the womb.  Any womb.")

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From: columbus@pleides.osf.org (Michael Weiss)
Subject: Re: Information per organism
Date: 1996/02/14
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