Biology as Information Dynamics (Part 2)

Here’s a video of the talk I gave at the Stanford Complexity Group:

You can see slides here:

• Biology as information dynamics.

Abstract. If biology is the study of self-replicating entities, and we want to understand the role of information, it makes sense to see how information theory is connected to the ‘replicator equation’ — a simple model of population dynamics for self-replicating entities. The relevant concept of information turns out to be the information of one probability distrib...