Tag: information
Couldn’t Life’s Information Have Accumulated Gradually? No, and New Long Story Explains Why Not
It turns out there are five separate qualities to life and its information that make this comforting rationalization impossible to uphold.
How Information Runs the Show in Biology
Specified information — when improbability meets a recognizable pattern — demands explanation.
My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will.
Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One
Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics.
Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism
Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders.