Measuring Active Information in Biological Systems

Bartlett, Jonathan

doi:10.5048/bio-c.2020.2

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“…Teleonomy can maintain a partial mapping of external environments and potentially successful DNA configurations, or even just a mapping of likely biologically valid operations on existing DNA. This has been observed repeatedly by many investigators at least as far back as the 1990s (Hall 1999), many of them reviewed in Caporale (2006), Zhang et al (2013), Bartlett (2017c), and Bartlett (2020b).…”

Section: Teleonomy and Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 57%

Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution

Bartlett

2023

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Teleological causes have been generally disfavored in biological explanations because they have been thought to lack rigor or act as stand-ins for non-teleological processes which are simply not yet understood sufficiently. Teleological explanations in biology have been limited to only teleonomic causes, which are teleological causes that are due to codes or similarly reified mechanisms. However, advances in the conceptualization of teleological and teleonomic causation have allowed for more quantitative analyses of both. Additionally, although teleonomy has been historically excluded from potential causes of evolution, new research has shown that teleonomy actually plays a significant role in evolution. Combining these advances with advances in computability theory and information theory have allowed for a more rigorous and quantitative analysis of the capabilities and limitations of teleonomy in evolution.

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Section: Teleonomy and Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 57%

Causal Capabilities of Teleology and Teleonomy in Life and Evolution

Bartlett

2023

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“…The active information supplied by selection may actually be a contributing factor to the success of E. coli developing the Cit + mutation described in "Relative Active Information" section of Bartlett (2020). Further research will be required to determine how much of an impact this has on the calculation.…”

Section: Methodological Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another potential issue with the measurement technique presented in Bartlett (2020) is that, to replicate to a population size adequate to perform the study, variation in the genome will already be introduced prior to the study in question. This might already introduce variety in the population that needs to be accounted for either experimentally or mathematically.…”

Section: Methodological Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The mathematics of Bartlett (2020) are a little hard to follow, so I wanted to present a combined formula here. The meanings of the components of the formula are given in Bartlett (2020).…”

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“…Recently, I demonstrated how this could be measured in biological systems, giving examples for how different types of systems might be measured (Bartlett, 2020). Since this is a fairly new approach for thinking about mutations in the genome, there are many confusions about what is actually being claimed and proposed.…”

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