(2019-01-02, 11:02 PM)stephenw Wrote: Informational activity operating in an informational environment is measured differently than physical activity in a physical environment.
Chemical analysis is a fabulous tool in understanding biological systems.
Analysis of communication, regulatory functions and intentional mental output are tools in understanding biological systems.
In practice, this methodology leads me to see the research into the chemical precursor to life as secondary; to research into how the first biological codes developed.
Personally, rather than confining oneself to one perspective, I prefer the way evolutionary biologists seem to be working on it, which includes chemical analysis in conjunction with how the biological codes may have developed (e.g. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0072225).
You've never really clarified why you consider chemical analysis vs. information two different and competing perspectives, rather than the way scientists in the field seem to use them (as one of many tools used to understand the larger picture).
Linda