Recent content by precisionart

"How would evolution "take advantage of this"? Think about your example for a moment. Adaptations are traits that are favored by selection. In the case of the moth, are the blue moths choosing to get eaten more often than those more gray in color? " Its not quite that bad:) I am saying that...

Of course from a survival and selection standpoint evolution relies on senses. To clarify what I intend to ask... using a made up scenario: say a blue month gets introduced to a city. The generations that progressively become more gray and match the buildings don't get eating by birds. As I...

I am curious how information is measured. For example, if i send a message with the symbol ∏ to Bob and he replies with a string of digits 3.14... Does one message have more information than the other? How does reducibility factor in?

Good response, thank you. I see that this thread is related to my other thread on perception. To ask the question differently...I observe directly that behavior is passed on, simply watching squirrels demonstrates this. I then ask how is behavior and capacity (tremendous and immediate...

wiki'd "Lamarckian" and I would say this probably applies - some form of soft inheritance. I guess my intuition tells me that if an organism has the ability to "see" its environment then why would evolution not take advantage of this, for example with camouflage. What would it make iterative...

Thanks for the reply. Well stated. ok. Essentially, just the first question restated. There is a potential for more rapid adaptation if "non-random selective advantages/disadvantages" are exploited. Perhaps a computing analogy (i'm not a CS major so please forgive) is applicable. That...

I was wondering how instinct or other forms of 'memory' are encoded in DNA. It seems there is a reservoir of knowledge that is stored in some way. Is this currently explained in genetics?

It seems that dna is constantly taking on damage - entropy. Why doesn't this damage accumulate over time? It appears that the amount of genetic damage that should accumulate would significantly outweigh the amount of ordering produced from the basic mechanisms of evolution. How is DNA ordering...

At what point does perception enter the process of evolution. Are all the mechanisms of evolution 'blind'? In other words, it seems that a tremendous power is ignored - an organism can perceive their environment so why doesn't evolution capitalize on this instead of relying on random mutations...

This raises a couple more questions for me: Is phase the only property that can be entangled? Can two particles become entangled just by circumstantial phase alignment? For example, no immediate common cause of phase alignment. What is the least action necessary to force particle-like...

In principle, what is the absolute simplest arrangement to cause decoherence? In other words what constitutes a measurement? Clearly gravitational interaction is not sufficient.

I didn't really think that anyone would answer this:) It is ironic that this spontaneous action is operative in scientists' activity, yet it is the one thing that none of them will acknowledge. Any comments? P.S. I do acknowledge the movement of evolution, I just question the precise nature...

It seems that many top scientist, mathematicians, composers etc speak of the moment of insight, including Feynman and Bohm, and it seems to come down to when the brain is silent. Being clever as Feynman was, he sought to figure out if there was some mechanical process, some pattern that could...

Thank you Fzero. I suspected that this was the correlation. Do galaxies exhibit a binding energy at all, whereby there mass is affected?

Ok, I understand that the arms are areas of a type of condensation and that material is more uniform. Darryl, You mentioned that the objects (stars?) don't move but that the gravity field rotates instead. I thought I once heard about the orbit time or our star around the galaxy (60 mill...