George C. Williams
Evolutionary biologist.
A Package of Information
in "The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, 1995
"Evolutionary biologists have failed to realize that they work with two more or less incommensurable domains: that of information and that of matter... These two domains will never be brought together in any kind of the sense usually implied by the term 'reductionism.' ... Information doesn't have mass or charge or length in millimeters. Likewise, matter doesn't have bytes... This dearth of shared descriptors makes matter and information two separate domains of existence, which have to be discussed separately, in their own terms. "p42-43.
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