Category: Informatics
ID Foundations, 17a: Footnotes on Conservation of Information, search across a space of possibilities, Active Information, Universal Plausibility/ Probability Bounds, guided search, drifting/ growing target zones/ islands of function, Kolmogorov complexity, etc.
| April 6, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Fine tuning, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics |
(previous, here) There has been a recent flurry of web commentary on design theory concepts linked to the concept of functionally specific, complex organisation and/or associated information (FSCO/I) introduced across the 1970′s into the 1980′s by Orgel and Wicken et al. (As is documented here.) This flurry seems to be connected to the announcement of… more
When does the Programmer install the software?
| March 7, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Cosmology, Creationism, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Religion |
A thing that evolutionists wrongly consider a serious problem for the creation/ID worldview is the “multiple acts of creation” or – in ID terms – “multiple insertions of information” in time. Here I will argue to show that this is a false problem, or – better said – is a problem that in no way… more
For Record: A clarifying note on [Gibbs and Shannon] entropy, information, FSCO/I and the 747 built by a tornado in a junkyard vs the 747 torn apart by one
| September 8, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design |
Over the past several days, there has been considerable debate at UD on thermodynamics, information, order vs disorder etc. In a clarifying note to Mung (who was in turn responding to Sal C) I have commented as follows. (My note also follows up from an earlier note that was put up early in the life… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 2
| September 5, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
In order for a biological system to have more biological complexity, it often requires a substantial increase in thermodynamic entropy, not a reduction of it, contrary to many intuitions among creationists and IDists. This essay is part II of a series that began with Part 1 The physicist Fred Hoyle famously said: The chance that… more
A Designed Object’s Entropy Must Increase for Its Design Complexity to Increase – Part 1
| September 4, 2012 | Posted by scordova under Biophysics, Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, ID Foundations, Informatics, Physics, Self-Org. Theory |
The common belief is that adding disorder to a designed object will destroy the design (like a tornado passing through a city, to paraphrase Hoyle). Now if increasing entropy implies increasing disorder, creationists will often reason that “increasing entropy of an object will tend to destroy its design”. This essay will argue mathematically that this… more
“Conservation of Information Made Simple” at ENV
| August 28, 2012 | Posted by William Dembski under Informatics, Intelligent Design |
Evolution News & Views just posted a long article I wrote on conservation of information. EXCERPT: “In this article, I’m going to follow the example of these books, laying out as simply and clearly as I can what conservation of information is and why it poses a challenge to conventional evolutionary thinking. I’ll break this… more
Design Detection with Conditional Kolmogorov Complexity
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Complex Specified Information, Engineering, ID Foundations, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Philosophy, Video |
Next up in the Engineering and Metaphysics series is a presentation by Winston Ewert. This one is on a new informatics metric, called conditional Kolmogorov complexity. Check it out! more
Bill Dembski: Is information a primitive concept, on a par with matter and energy?
| June 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Genomics, Informatics |
“I’ve got a massive, one-volume encyclopedia of physics on my shelf with publication date 1992. Neither among the main entries nor in the extensive index does the word ‘information’ appear. ” more
On the Impossibility of Abiogenesis
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by niwrad under Cell biology, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
Modern science takes for granted that the naturalistic origin of life, called “abiogenesis” or “chemical evolution” or “pre-biotic evolution” is extremely improbable but not impossible. “Life” here means a single self-reproducing and self-sustaining biological cell. Science claims that life can arise from inorganic matter through natural processes. This unsupported claim is based on the conviction… more
Evolutionary Informatics Lab- a look inside …
| May 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Informatics, Intelligent Design, News |
Head, Bob Marks, interviewed by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society History Committee. more
Bill Dembski on the Evolutionary Informatics Lab – the one a Baylor dean tried to shut down
| February 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Informatics |
“I see this work as providing the theoretically most powerful ID challenge against Darwinian evolution to date.” more
A blog on different ways ID theory can be applied
| January 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Cybernetics and Mechatronics, Informatics, News, Philosophy |
It also lists some applied ID papers. more
David Abel: “Genetic code is conceptually ideal. “
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Informatics, News |
“Even protocells would require controls, biosemiosis, regulation, and an extraordinary degree of organization that mere mass/energy interactions, or chance and necessity, cannot produce.” more
Ideas for carrying design thinking forward into the world of education and industrial transformation
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under Education, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Science, worldview issues and society |
As we go into the holiday weekend, it may be worth the while to reflect on how design thinking and key associated ideas — here, especially the von Neumann self-replicator — could help play a role in transforming education, industry and agriculture. Details, here . . . A happy Christmas and a prosperous new year… more
Crowdsourcing: A new way of finding solutions faster, using large amounts of data
| November 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Informatics, Intelligent Design, News |
O’Leary didn’t have hundred people over him in a dark-matter bureaucratic hierarchy, where even getting his solution considered would be 90% of the battle. more
Who designed the designer? – the mirrors of infinite regress face off against each other
| August 6, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Informatics, Philosophy |
But there is no reason to think that there is an infinite regress with respect to design of the universe. Regresses must terminate in a cause of all things. Whether that cause is God is a metaphysical question, but what I have said so far is merely observation and common sense. If someone wishes to claim that there could be an undetected multiverse out there and that, for all we know, it could have an effect on our universe, all I can say is that science deals with observed causes.
more
Is cell biologist James Shapiro a heretic? Or is this the year Darwinism collapsed?
| June 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Informatics |
Look what University of Chicago’s James Shapiro is saying, New research has shown that a novel way of looking at evolution is needed. Cells are sensitive and communicative information processing entities. Novelty in evolution comes in part from genome changes that are the result of regulated cellular activity. The next step in the understanding of… more
Feedback sought on new book on information age
| May 24, 2011 | Posted by News under Informatics |
Dave Ullmer at Beyond the Information Age asks for critics for his e-book summarized here: Beyond the Information Age discusses a new way of thinking about computers, knowledge and understanding. He’d like to know if it relates to the ID controversy. more
An information systems prof has some questions about Ken Miller’s “spitball” mousetrap
| May 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Informatics, Irreducible Complexity |
While explaining how he believes complex biochemical information just happen to arise through random processes, Brown University’s Ken Miller dismisses Mike Behe’s mousetrap, introduced in Darwin’s Black Box. To show that it is not an example of irreducible complexity that points to design, he recounts a childhood recollection of a pupil using a mousetap to… more
But what if the CIO is herself a chimp?
| April 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Informatics |
Blogger Wintery Knight, a programmer by day, comments on neo-Darwinism’s view of how information gets encoded: Imagine a materialist CIO who thought that code was written by large numbers of monkeys pounding at keyboards instead of by engineers. He would be firing all the software engineers and replacing them with monkeys in… more