re: #51 Decatur Deb

Mare: #35 LudwigVanQuixote

I’ll try to get some new testament physical anthropology info, but back in the miocene they used to teach us a somewhat more aggressive picture of mutation. It’s compatible with your copy-error description, but looked for driving mechanisms in background and other radiation sources. Will refresh.

Ohhh, I said nothing about the mechanisms of how mutations can occur. In the context of the argument I made, what they are specifically, really doesn’t matter.

For example, if you are only looking at copying errors, fine, but that is not everything involved.

If you look at the whole system, you have all sorts of other players. A retro virus comes along and adds some stuff to your code. It does what it does and the state where one member got infected is just another case of stuff other than what was “intended” happening.

Arguing macroscopic entropy always gets difficult and hung up on technicalities, like where you decide the boundaries of a system are.

That is why I like to stick to microscopic entropy. The concepts are the same, but much easier to keep concrete.