Digital Irreducible Complexity - Author Thread

[WinstonEwert]

I recently had a paper published at bio-complexity:

This is a thread to discuss the paper or ask questions of the author (me).

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[johnspenn]

Winston,

Congrats on getting your work published. It all made perfect sense to me, although I am already convinced that life itself is irreducibly complex.

It seems to me like it's a lot of work to prove something that should be as obvious as the nose on one's face, but the work is necessary and thankfully there are smart guys like you to do it. Keep up the good work!

[DiEb]

[WinstonEwert]

[Roy]

Two quick questions:
1) Why does your calculation for Tierra group the individual instructions into 'genes', but your calculation for Avida not do so?
2) Why do you state that Dave Thomas's Steiner tree model contains only binary state objects when the additional nodes have a million possible positions?

Roy

[stcordova]

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