Conal Elliott

42%
Flag icon
The replication of DNA is a copying of information. The manufacture of proteins is a transfer of information: the sending of a message. Biologists could see this clearly now, because the message was now well defined and abstracted from any particular substrate. If messages could be borne upon sound waves or electrical pulses, why not by chemical processes? Gamow framed the issue simply: “The nucleus of a living cell is a storehouse of information.” Furthermore, he said, it is a transmitter of information. The continuity of all life stems from this “information system”; the proper study of ...more
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Rate this book
Clear rating
Open Preview