Tag: semantic information

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post

Date
January 20, 2021

Categories
Environment & Climate
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, bacteria, California, cells, Columbia University, CRISPR-Cas9, DNA, Escherichia coli, genes, information, intelligent design, junk DNA, Nature (journal), New York City, ribosomes, semantic information, serine, steganography, translation}

DNA Storage Goes Biological

_{Science and Culture
January 20, 2021

Environment & Climate, Intelligent Design

11}

DNA is already known to be an ideal storage medium. Why not use cells to do the hard work? Read More ›

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post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, amino acids, biological information, critics, DNA, evolutionary processes, genetic code, information theory, Macbeth, physicists, proteins, Randy Isaac, RNA, Scrabble, semantic information, Shannon information, Stephen Meyer, William Shakespeare}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Information Theory

_{Brian Miller
July 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Linguistics

6}

Researchers felt compelled to describe biological information using such phrases as “coding schemes,” “carries meaning,” “core program,” and “hierarchical rules (grammar).” Read More ›

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post

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, The Logic of Chance, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

7}

A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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post

Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski, William Macready}

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

8}

Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›

-powered language translation software for global communication

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post

Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
August 16, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, artificial intelligence, Big Data, deep learning, game playing ai, games, Google Translate, intuition, language, Neural Networks, semantic information, specialization, translation}

Artificial Intelligence and the Language Barrier

_{Brendan Dixon
August 16, 2016

Computational Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

If you have a few free minutes, try, for fun, filling them with Google Translate. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 12, 2016

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal languages, designators, ethology, human language, language, mimicry, semantic information, signal}

Do Animals Have Language?

_{Michael Egnor
July 12, 2016

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

Some animals, after sufficient training by human researchers, use signals that mimic language. But mimicry is not language itself. Read More ›

Young woman touching her own reflection in a mirror

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 26, 2008

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, aboutness, agency, brain chemistry, defining terms, determinism, free will, inaccessibility, intentionality, materialism, meaning, mind, neuroscience, personal identity, secondary qualities, self-awareness, semantic information, subjectivity, superstition}

The Mind and Materialist Superstition

_{Michael Egnor
November 26, 2008

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

9}

Consider the six characteristics of the mind, generally accepted by materialist and non-materialist scientists and philosophers. Read More ›

Brilliant Young Mathematician Is Writing on Big Blackboard and Thinking about Solving Long and Complex Equation/ Formula.

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 11, 2006

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Tagged
, __edited, algorithms, complexity, credentialism, evolutionary informatics, language, Scientific Dissent from Darwin, semantic information, specialization, syntax, Wistar Symposium}

Mathematicians and Evolution

_{Casey Luskin
July 11, 2006

Evolution, Mathematics

5}

Mathematics has a strong tradition of giving cogent critique of evolutionary biology. Read More ›