Scientists in many fields recognize the connection between intelligence and information and make inferences accordingly. Archaeologists assume that a scribe produced the inscriptions on the Rosetta Stone. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) presupposes that specified information imbedded in electromagnetic signals coming from space would indicate an intelligent source.52 As yet radio astronomers have not found any such information-bearing signals. But closer to home, molecular biologists have identified specified information-rich sequences and systems in the cell, suggesting,
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