Paul Davies and the “struggle to define life”

Another piece on Paul Davies’ new book, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life, on the importance of information in understanding life:

“The basic hypothesis is this,” Davies says. “We have fundamental laws of information that bring life into being from an incoherent mish-mash of chemicals. The remarkable properties we associate with life are not going to come about by accident.”

The proposal takes some unpacking. Davies believes that the laws of nature as we know them today are insufficient to explain what life is and how it came about. We need to find new laws, he says, or at least new principles, which describe how information courses around living creatures. Those rules may not only nail down what life is, but actively favour its emergence.Ian Sample, “
‘I predict a great revolution’: inside the struggle to define life” at The Guardian

Information is the key? Wait till they discover the Law of Conservation of Information and try applying it to the hapless popular Darwinism that dominates biology today.

See also: Paul Davies: Life’s Defining Characteristics “Better Understood As Information”

Law of Conservation of Information vs. Darwinism

 Law of Conservation of Information Part I

and

Law of Conservation of Information Part II

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