(2018-05-17, 12:48 PM)stephenw Wrote: A memory, such as the ability to re-experience aspect of an event is at a different level of mental process than an instinct. Understanding how a coded message can exist in RNA operating in the information processing system of a living thing is really moving our process knowledge forward. A basic building block of how bio-information works could be discovered.
In the worldview of informational realism, which I have been expressing - the RNA pattern is a structured expression of a coded message, so that in the operating environment of a similar living system - an information object that has the same function becomes a viable signal. The environment I am speaking about is an informational space. There is a corresponding electro-chemical physical space that enables the informational processes to manifest. The two levels, info and physio must correspond as a working system.
Presumably the ‘bootstrap’ responses I mentioned earlier must find their way into the growing organism - how else other than through genetic material?