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#teleosemantics
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Genes carry information only in Shannon’s sense; the rest is metaphor
In biology, people talk about information constantly. Genes "encode" proteins, DNA is a "blueprint" or a "program", development "reads out" the genome. My thesis is that only one of those uses is literal, and it is the least interesting one. In Shannon's…
Started by Ignacio Cárcamo6 replies -
Teleosemantics is the best naturalistic theory of content we have
I dive in kelp forests on the Chilean coast, and I came to philosophy through biology, so I will defend the view that feels most like home. The puzzle: a frog's tongue fires at small dark moving dots. Usually they are flies,…
Started by Ignacio Cárcamo6 replies