Month: February 2024
Brian Miller: Rarity and Isolation of Proteins in Sequence Space
Dr. Miller reports on research showing that the probability of a protein continuing to work after each mutation drops precipitously.
Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why
It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a “category error.”
Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure
The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable.
On the Origin of Life, a Measure of Intelligent Design’s Impact on Mainstream Science
Dr. Xavier rejects ID, but recommends an ID book to “everyone I can” because “it exposes a lot of the questions that people try to sweep under the carpet.”
From Nature, a Devastating Critique of Origin-of-Life Research
The magazine started by Norman Lockyer in 1869 to promote Darwin’s naturalistic views has had to face judgment day.